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
All roads ashore may lead toward Miltown, but the buoyant water works its own tranquilizing magic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The monster, which stole the show among 285 commercially sponsored exhibits, was Surrealist Salvador Dali's unrealistic idea of tranquillity executed for Wallace Laboratories to promote Miltown.
From Time Magazine Archive
Justice Department charged that two of them had conspired to monopolize the $40 million-a-year market for meprobamate, better known as Miltown or 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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