Word: hemlock
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...leap to conclusions, he said to himself. They might be taking hemlock, or dulling the senses with some opiate, or almost anything. He wondered if they would have a little left...
...sudden guffaw, in chorus, followed by a really entrancing squeal disillusioned him. This was not form for taking hemlock...
...times like these?" Above all, said President Griswold, they must continue to be what they have been. "I do not know who first questioned the [practical] value of the scholar's life; it may have been one of Socrates' disciples who watched his master drink the hemlock. Surely no calling has been so much questioned-and despaired of-since that memorable event; and just as surely none has contributed so much to western civilization . . . [Yet] to whom else do we pin our hopes of ending our periodic reversions to savagery and putting our engines of destruction to creative...
Like an overdose of champagne (or hemlock), it hits the underpinning of the economy first. Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida. Short crops and short fuel send other thousands after them. The greatest holiday in history...
Plagued by dysentery and mosquitoes, Cleaveland's men followed the paths their axmen hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...