spray and pray v. phr.— «Drug companies are not ready to abandon the “spray and pray” random sampling of compounds to find potential new drugs, but excitement is growing about using computers to design tomorrow’s...
cotton curtain n.— «This very afternoon he had left the office of his agent in New York, tonight would stop off at his house in Bucks County, and tomorrow would head south, under the “cotton curtain,” as he expressed it...
chemical cosh n.— «These drugs can make people more manageable and less demanding. They have been implicated in the torture of prisoners in Soviet psychiatric prisons. Allegations concerning their use as the “chemical cosh”...
death match n.— «Black Jack Mulligan, a 320-pound giant from Texas, and 325-pound wrestler Superstar No. 2 will grapple tomorrow in a Texas death match as the featured attraction of a professional wrestling card at Maple Leaf Gardens...
lactivist n.— «The bill died in West Virginia again last year, but the “lactivists” (yes, they call themselves that) already are pushing hard. What they want is to require that anyone who allows the public into their...
hully-gully adj.— «He’s really hully-gully. He goes straight back to pass and runs up the middle; he starts to his left and runs right…I don’t know what we could do about him if we played SMU again tomorrow.» —“Spread Makes...