Miltown
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Meprobamate is an anti-anxiety medicine marketed under the brand names Miltown and Equanil.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
IT has long since become a cliche to talk of the caution and deliberation of Richard Nixon's presidency, which sometimes makes the White House seem like Miltown Mansion.
From Time Magazine Archive
His Miltown mood indicates that if the sky were falling, it would be about as important as a broken crayon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The backlog of unfilled orders is at once the pride and despair of Wallace Laboratories in New Brunswick, N.J., makers of Miltown, and Philadelphia's Wyeth, Inc., which calls the same drug Equanil.
From Time Magazine Archive
A numbed dreariness descended on the house, everyone moving in slow motion in the gloom of Miltown and recent events.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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