Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built around the phenothiazine molecule (trade names: Thorazine, Compazine, Sparine, Pacatal) are so potent "that it is surprising they do not cause more undesired side effects." One of the commonest is Parkinsonism, with rigidity, tremor, pill-rolling motion of the hands, disturbances of all movements, and drooling. Symptoms may persist two or three months after medication is stopped. Thorazine can also cause severe liver damage-sometimes fatal...
...Ph.D.s "persist in their perverse modesty and deliberately hide the fact that they are doctors." Even worse, "they help demean their profession further by lending themselves to the widespread practice ... of handing out honorary doctor's degrees . . . like lollipops." Seymour's recommendation: replacing honorary doctorates with O.C.C. (Outstanding Citizen of the Community) degrees, so that recipients cannot masquerade as hand-carved Ph.D.s. Whatever happens, it is probable that Ph.D.s will, willy-nilly, go on passing as ordinary mortals. Byline on the Educational Record piece: plain "Harold Seymour...
...from nuclear bombs and bomb tests. Geneticists insist that this matter is not a central part of their science, but none of them takes the potential effects of fallout lightly. They have spent their working lives with experimental organisms deliberately deformed by radiation. They know how recessive damaged genes persist unnoticed for many generations, only to appear (and perhaps to kill or cripple) when two of them meet in the same fertilized egg. They know that some damaged genes in humans have bad effects so subtle that they are hard to measure or count. They suspect that radiation damage...
...order of the day: "Our prime function is the protection of life and property and the maintenance of law and order, and this function will be carried out against any persons, regardless of age, who willfully and maliciously thumb their noses at law and order and who persist in thinking that the laws of the jungle can be transplanted to the streets of New York." The order's author: 51-year-old Stephen Patrick Kennedy, the hard-boiled career cop who is the 25th police commissioner of the City of New York...
...unionists persist in working without a contract, the companies can exert more pressure. They can stop deducting union dues from employees' paychecks, and they can refuse to pay union stewards who now work in plants and handle grievances, etc. The union let it be known that if no contract is signed, the U.A.W. will not be responsible for any scattered stoppages or slowdowns by workers. In turn, the companies let it be known that if unionists try such harassing tactics, the plants will be closed down...