Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between Dragnet and the pack is a qualitative difference. CBS's new The Man Behind the Badge, which borrows techniques both from Dragnet and The Big Story, may develop into a close rival. Badge skillfully adds a dash of sex to its sadism, and makes the dose palatable to the squeamish with a high-sounding dedication to such unsung public servants as probation officers, women wardens, youth counselors and tracers of missing persons...
...Sexual frustration seemed typical, with the women frigid, the men inept. Whisky was the means of destroying inhibitions. "It's very expensive,'' a gentleman complained to her. "It takes a lot of whisky to reduce a woman to the right degree of drunkenness, and if the dose is too strong she's no longer fit for anything but sleep...
...worked twelve or more hours a day, at one point had 16 jobs (among them: Solid Fuels Administrator, Coordinator of Fisheries, Petroleum Administrator). He suffered from chronic exhaustion, and sometimes rose in the lonely hours of the night to dose himself gloomily with whisky in an attempt to sleep. But he somehow found time through the years to dictate 6,000,000 words of private diary...
...many votes for the Democratic party. Besides its sophistication, which automatically limits its audience, its content is just too slanted. Reading it is like sitting through a three-hour campaign rally. I have a suspicion almost all its readers are Democrats to start with. But as a monthly dose of propaganda, it will keep the faithful happy, their barrels fully loaded for any Republican who happens within earshot...
...country the living was easy. But there were times when roots, dried berries and their horses and dogs stood between them and starvation. Wrote Lewis on Jan. 5, 1806: "I have learned to think that if the chord be sufficiently strong, which binds the soul and boddy together, it dose not so much matter about the materials which compose...