Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have this recording to do. I think I must be fresh, at my best. But I cannot sleep. Someone gave me sleeping pills. I never take pills, never! But I take a pill-and I am wide awake. So I take another and I begin to feel drowsy. And I get mad. To think that that little pill, that so little pill, can dominate...
...adopt, but one thing was certain. The present draft procedures would be tightened, and many of the nice exemptions, particularly those that shielded college students, would be dropped. And probably that law would be changed to make 18-year-olds subject to the draft. It would be a bitter pill for youngsters and their parents, but the nation had no other choice...
Councillor Hyman Pill stated that he has always voted with Lynch on his anti-Communist legislation but, this time, he also believed the Council would "insult the leaders of the group...
Bevin began his speech in the quavering tones of a sick man. He paused to swallow a pill. Suddenly he cried: "No one here would stand more insults, more abuse, than I have from Molotov and Vishinsky." The conference roared its understanding. Bevin raised his hand high and yelled: "I do not believe the United States will ever be aggressors . . . I want to nail that lie. It is sent out by Russia to try to blind the people of the world, to throw mud . . ." The conference cheered...
Given Glen (Houghton Mifflin; $3-75) is a massive and hard-to-swallow pill by that usually deft practitioner of slickmagazine fiction, Ben Ames Williams. For 629 pages, it rambles pointlessly on about Owen Glen's childhood in the 'gos, the daily minutiae of a mining town with its labor troubles and civic problems, endless excerpts from its banal little newspaper. Novelist Williams, who has done considerably better in his day (Come Spring) and has almost never descended to boredom, seems almost determined to write a boring story. His success is complete...