Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hershewe - are as obstreperous as they are attractive. Further spice is provided by Murray Hamilton and Robert Webber as dastardly villains, and by the stunning Alexis Smith, who turns up as a wealthy horsewoman. In her tight jeans and cowboy hat, Smith gives Casey's Shadow a welcome dose of hard-edged sexuality...
Take two players with diametrically-opposed styles, add a liberal dose of related circumstances that enhance the quality of unpredictability, sprinkle lightly with the tradition of a unique and perplexing rivalry, and you have the recipe for yesterday's Virginia Slims final between Chris Evert and Evonne Goolagong...
...rights, and I want to protect myself from ghosts. . ." On and on she rambled, getting louder and louder until she was literally screeching, trying to drown out the noise of the tracks. I was trapped until she suddenly bolted near New Haven, looking, I suppose, for the next blissful dose of thorazine...
Economists today generally agree on one point: many of their old ideas do not work well in controlling that endemic modern problem, stagflation. A stiff dose of Government spending, prescribed by Britain's late Dr. John Maynard Keynes to cure depression, often leads to an inflation high. The monetarist medicine formulated by Dr. Milton Friedman ?take a slow, steady increase of money supply?often produces the economic blahs. The radical surgery of wage-price controls is widely recognized as a palliative at best or, at worst, counterproductive quackery...
...achieved critical and popular success. Among the English writers of Greene's generation, only Evelyn Waugh was more skillful at moving a narrative with brief, dramatic scenes. Yet Greene's contributions have had a wider influence. He administered to the spy thriller its most potent dose of modern disillusionment. As a Roman Catholic convert with an unblinking eye for guilt and evil, he gave the bulky 19th century Russian soul opera a fresh English tailoring. The trials of a "whisky priest" in The Power and the Glory are, perhaps, the prime example of such styling...