Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, he soon realizes, is not only at loose ends but at a meaningless dead end. An egocentric tycoon named Lord Mervil seems to offer a way out when he asks Ravenstreet to join him in the mass production of a pill rather like the soma of Huxley's Brave New World. No larger than an aspirin, it banishes all anxiety and induces a state of euphoric serenity. Bui before Ravenstreet says yes, his life takes a strange new turn...
Better Mousetrap. A disposable, plastic, cylindrical trap that relieves the housewife of having to touch a dead mouse was brought out by Shaw-Randall Co., Inc. of Pawtucket, R.I. (The mouse, attracted by odor of grain, walks into "Sanitrap," eats poison pill, is paralyzed and killed. Tube, mouse and all are then thrown away.) Price...
...General William F. Dean said that he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity . . . I shudder to think of the situation that would exist within the armed forces ... if it became commonly acceptable for all military men to gulp the "Dean bean" that they have been gingerly carrying around with them in their watch pocket for use when in danger...
...famous "socialized medicine," as the AMA refers to it, is financed by percentage paycheck deductions. For their money Britains get attention from doctors of their choice, hospitalization and surgery, dental work, drugs, spectacles, and false teeth. The Minister of Health noted: "Rugged Britain has become a nation of pill-swallowers...
...Army's most famed prisoner-of-war, Major General William F. Dean, appeared as a witness for Colonel Schwable, told of writing two letters which the Reds might have used as propaganda. General Dean said he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity. Dr. Joost K. M. Merloo, a Dutch psychiatrist who worked in the anti-Nazi underground during World War II, testified that any man-including the members of the court-would eventually confess if subjected to Communist mental torture...