Word: schizoids
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Reserpine is a "tranquilizing agent" used to calm patients suffering manic disorders, schizoid conditions, alcohol and drug addiction, and chronic psychoses. It has also been found effective in temporaily reducing high blood pressure...
When I tried to tell the State Department the same thing, in practically the same words, a year and a half ago, I had my throat Cohned and Schined from career to here,* while the schizoid psychological warriors of Foggy Bottom ran for cover...
...three telegrams. The first read: "Expect you in our legation in Rome as soon as possible. Talal." The second read: "Meet at once at the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Lausanne. Talal." The third read: "Forget my telegrams, no need to come." They all added up to the fact that poor, schizoid King Talal was not much better; he was much the same...
...dreamland of Southern lady hood. Stanley, her brother-in-law, heaves her off the tightrope of sanity after he hears of a previous stage of her illness, a sexual frenzy that, as it is described in hearsay, seems to have been not nymphomania but the frantic efforts of a schizoid to stay consciously alive. Vivien Leigh's performance is as much a tour de force as was Williams' creation of the role...
...record-buying public, this schizoid spectacle has been confusing, to say the least. Why go on buying the old 78s, when 45s or 33-⅓s are obviously the coming thing? But which of the two new types to buy? Columbia's Long Playing 33⅓, s whose microgrooves can hold a whole symphony on two sides, have an advantage in convenience over Victor's small 453 for long classical selections. Also, Columbia's seven-inchers are quite as good for popular music as RCA's seven-inchers, though there are as yet few automatic record...