Word: depressant
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...section that takes place not long before Reuben Sledge goes down into The City. Life gradually drags him into total withdrawal: he spends day after day festering alone in bed, drawing into himself, utterly isolated in a concrete cellar room. He reads a lot of books: they depress him, increase his loneliness. He stops reading, and as he struggles to hang on to his sanity he becomes excruciatingly familiar with every individual cement block in the cell. Fighting to keep from fading entirely to within his own head, his lunge at reality turns to memorizing each idiosyncrasy on the surface...
...becoming really interested in journalism. We are going to show our contemporaries that we are at least as bright as they are, and perhaps.... During the process we discover to our amazement that our sentences are now taking shape all by themselves and that the typewriter keys seem to depress themselves almost without manual manipulation. We have arrived! We are now Editors! But there are many different kinds of editors. Some are poor editors; some are good editors; some are very good editors; and some have a talent for the business. But even the talented came up the hard...
...Heusen "Vanknit." With her right hand, she picks a button out of the box on a small side table, and lays it in a slot of her machine. With her left hand, she positions the cloth, using a mark on the machine. Her foot, and her green slipper, depress a pedal, and the machine places the button down and news eight quick stitches of light blue thread in half a second. As she slides the material into position for the next button, she picks another button...
...landed gentry from the antebellum mansions who had so long manipulated the state's agrarian economy have yielded to commercial captains from suburban split-levels. Pickpocket politics no longer sets poor white against poor black for scarce jobs; rather it works in a growing job market to depress wages and make union organizing difficult. Growth has been slowed some what by the recession, but a firm federal floor under the Southern economy has so far protected the region from wide fluctuations. Military payrolls and farm subsidies?economic buffers care fully cultivated by the South's high-seniority senators and congressmen?...
Readers of '20s Columnist Don Marquis sometimes found his space occupied by the work of archy, a lowly lower-case friend, archy never had the strength to depress the upper-case key, and his punctuation was atonal in any key. It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach. It was assumed that archy died again along with his creator...