Word: opium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangeness and narcotic imagery is sustained so effortlessly, that readers may miss the violence of its incidents and the somberness of its message (that the conqueror remains a thwarted exile in the house of the conquered). Engineer Aubrey Wall, who will not seduce Gisele, but who kicks an opium-drugged servant to death, is one Englishman for whom the prewar burden of empire was too much. Examining the canals he had built, "his nervous system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year...
...Little Opium. Farm Congressmen were demanding higher crop prices. They knew that, if the lid were off, farmers could easily sell all they grew, at bonanza prices. Maybe a "little inflation" would be a good thing, some argued...
Answered the President: a "little inflation" is like a little opium: soon you want more, then you have the habit. If food prices soared, labor would bolt through the Little Steel formula; presently all prices-including what the farmer wanted to buy-would get out of hand...
...women war workers. She gets her unbound hair caught in the plant machinery and is fired. She sobs Maisie out of $20 and her fiance out of $100, steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood Apartments, where "opium smoking is not permitted in the corridors." When Maisie tries to prevent this assignation, Iris denounces her for sabotage. But Iris winds up with a wastebasket rammed over her head, while Maisie winds up in the arms of her airman...
...Karl Marx was right in calling religion the opium of the people, the air over Moscow must have been blue with fumes last week...