Word: drowsyness
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In Jawaharlal Nehru's home state of Uttar Pradesh, the legislative assembly was in turmoil. A member had just reported that a religious ascetic had performed a temple rite to the Hindu goddess of destruction, Durga, in order to take Nehru's life by magic. In New Delhi...
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
The man who now carries to bed with him the world's heaviest burden of responsibilities, Lyndon Baines Johnson, needs no drowsy syrups to help him get to sleep-and he often gets only five hours a night. Adman David Ogilvy takes a nightly dose of "a little yellow...
Shakespeare's poppy is still around in the form of morphine and its derivatives, plus synthetic substitutes. Mandragora is gone. But the drowsy syrups, and more recently tablets and capsules, have multiplied enormously. By far the most abundantly used and misused are the barbiturates. They come under a hundred...
The new literature does not provide facile diversion for a drowsy reader. For one thing, translations tend to be abysmal. For another, stylistic techniques are usually old-fashioned-partly because Soviet authorities still frown on "bourgeois ornamentation," partly because Soviet writers are still too intoxicated at being even partially free...