cough syrup
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Chris Robinson, the actor who played Dr. Rick Webber on “General Hospital” and also introduced America to a classic turn of phrase in a commercial for cough syrup, has died of heart failure.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025
Q: I would like to share my recipe for honey and onion cough syrup.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024
Since 2022, more than 200 Indonesian children, most of whom were under the age of five, have died of acute kidney injury linked to contaminated cough syrup.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
An old campaign slogan for cough syrup, "It tastes awful. And it works," seemed to imply that any sweet content might have diminished the medicinal effect.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023
Like standing mean mouthed over Vonetta and Fern until they swallow a tablespoon each of hard pine cough syrup.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
