Word: dosings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while. Miss Jackson nimbly precipitates a commonplace situation into quiet mystery, then active horror. "The Lottery" is an allegory, and a fine one: it cuts too close to the heart of people and their customs to be anything much else. You can also take it as a straight dose of hair-trigger shock, if you'd rather. The story does quite as well either way and makes Miss Jackson's book worth reading...
...taught the gospel to the young at a "labor school." He used gullible university professors to drum up recruits among their students. He threw parties to recruit young men for the war in Spain. After the youths had had a quantity of Dennis' liquor and a good dose of his oratory, their duty became plain. He arranged their passports and sent them packing, full of zeal. For Dennis, no chance for conquest was to be neglected. One of his followers, pretty, brown-haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church...
...Enemy. During their two-year course the priest-students study economics, law (especially labor legislation), Communism, cooperatives, farm problems, history, geography, English, and the social doctrines of the Catholic Church. Each day's work is concluded with study of the Gospel-an antidote to the stiff daily dose of secular thinking...
Cocaine and morphine are among the many drugs which the Communists could have used, according to the Medical School expert. Since a dose of these drugs can last seven or eight hours, they would be just as effective in wringing an oral confession from the Cardinal in an open court as in forcing a signed confession, Krayer stated...
Investigation later proved that the bottle had toppled from the room of Frederick C. Dunn '51. But the damage had already been dose...