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...high with heroin. It's that rush for the first minute, when it hits your bloodstream. It's one minute of heaven, that first jolt. Right after, you feel good. In two or three hours you get nervous, wondering where your next fix is coming from. I started begging, doing anything. All my time was spent raising money...
...Washington Sanitation Department employs no female street cleaners, black or white). The most amusing tableau involves the Russians' visit to the reading room of a right-wing organization in Texas. The plump, gray-haired attendant happened to be napping when they arrived, and he woke with a jolt that turned to shock when he learned the identity of his visitors. The two Pravda men speculate jokingly that the librarian "was thinking that he had slept through some important event, maybe even an invasion...
Authors Margolis and Clorfene, who are comedy writers and (they claim) nonusers, begin with the beginner and tell him what to expect. There is no initial kick or jolt from grass, they say, and "there is no way you are 'supposed' to feel." But among the feelings that may happen are a slow general euphoria, the discovery that everything is funny (even "your friend's teeth are a riot"), and a minute fascination with whatever little thing the smoker happens to be doing. Occasionally smokers are affected by a sense of paranoia, an inability to remember...
They send out waves of joy that jolt an audience right out of the glooms and start it stamping floors and pounding fists on chairs. They have no need of costumes or choreography. Soloists leap forward as if by pure impulse. The rest let themselves be caught up by the sound they create, shouting when they like, dancing when the excitement grabs them, hands flying, arms waving to exhort each other...
...inflation psychosis." Such tough talk reflects a serious worry that is still shared by the majority of the board's members. They fear that even the slightest move toward easier money or lower interest rates would be misinterpreted by businessmen as a signal to get set for another jolt of inflation. In the minority at present, Board Members Sherman...