Word: opium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help but wonder, where does all that opium, which so successfully dulls our pains and paralyzes our will power, where does that same drug which has doped so many other peoples into slavery come from...
...fortnight while West Redding, Conn.'s Katherine Dreier was making her gift to Yale, another patroness of modern art did her bit for modern art in Baltimore. Baltimore's modern-minded matron was grey-bobbed Saidie May, diminutive, onetime wife of the League of Nation's opium-sleuthing Herbert...
Nowhere in the democratic world were there signs of imagination or just plain capacity to match the mad audacity of Hitler. The U.S., like a man coming out of an opium dream, had barely waked up to the knowledge that it could not count on anybody else to fight its battles, that it had to achieve its own survival...
...Province. For a generation before the war Szechwan, richest, largest, most populous province of China, lived by itself. Warlords dominated it. They lived in great palaces equipped with foreign-style, pink, green and lavender-tiled bathrooms pleasing to their many concubines. The streets of their cities stank with opium. Szechwan was a pus-pocket in the nation from which poison seeped through all China. While Chiang built a modern central Government in the lower Yangtze Valley, the Szechwanese went their way almost untouched...
...bombing in May 1939 gave Chiang an excuse to establish control of that city and eastern Szechwan. Gradually he brought his own armies into the Province, thrust his appointees into provincial posts. He forced the warlords to send troops to the front, while his own men cracked down on opium bootlegging, main source of the corrupt warlords' revenue. By last year Chiang was so firmly in control that he could install as Governor his own man, stocky General Chang Chun...