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Word: nodoz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before I dared to take NoDoz for the first time, I thought it would turn me into a zombie, a being so dehumanized that he wouldn't feel the natural coming on of sleep. After a while I came to realize that the chemicals in my body that combined to produce the effect of sleepiness were merely being altered by others of their kind -- friendly, similarly structured chemicals. In other words, that sleepiness wasn't something spiritual that had been violated by chemistry...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Outline for the Coming Chemical Society, Or Dexedrine vs the Old Academic Process | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Besides marijuana, discussion also cen- tered upon LSD, narcotics, sedatives and hypnotics, energizers, tranquillizers, and non-regulated medications such as Nodoz, Ropertussin (a cough medicine which supposedly produces a "high"), and non-prescription sleeping pills...

Author: By Diana L. Ordin, | Title: Doctors Tell Freshman Cliffies Mental Dangers of Heavy Pot Use | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

...write your "revealing probe." Is it in to believe? And in what? How do we feel about Christ? Well, let's take a look. At the beginning of the novel, He may be a way out of one heroine's dilemma. After going to church high on "benzedrin, dexedrin, nodoz" she comes home and sits down at her desk...

Author: By Bel Dahm, | Title: This is supposed to be revealing. It's not. | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...eight or more items in a men's pack currently include Old Spice lotion, Gillette blades and Alka-Seltzer; the women's pack has, among other items, Pond's cream makeup and talcum, Colgate's Lustre-Creme shampoo and Grove Laboratories' NoDoz. On large campuses, bargain-happy undergrads have grabbed up as many as 8,000 one-to-a-customer packs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promotion: Big Marketing Man on Campus | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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