Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each of the three areas of Gen Ed sought common goals on the lower level, courses were not restricted to a single approach. Professors, were instead given latitude in adapting old courses, as in Taylor's case, or in creating entirely new ones--in order to provide the same pill with coatings variously-flavored for the students, and also, as Beer asserts, because "the only way to get a good course is for a man to make it out of himself...
...Stalas Luft, June '44-April '45), I would like to suggest a more realistic code to be followed by P.W.s i) Give to all men (primarily officers) who have knowledge of war plans a suicide pill to be taken when such individuals deem it necessary. 2) Allow all P.W.s the privilege of talking as they see fit, writing as many confessions as the enemy wishes. 3) Allow the P.W. to do anything the enemy requires except take action which is in any way harmful to fellow prisoners. Any P.W. found guilty of this crime to be punished...
...made in his text for the TV version managed to make the play even worse. O'Neill's final note stresses man's indomitable hope in the face of hopelessness. The TV version concluded with a happy ending, sugar-coating O'Neill's bitter pill...
Lester gazed at the big white moon with narrow red eyes. Red because Lester was being a diligent student the night before exams. His mind was crammed with declensions and conjugations and his box of No-Doz was filled with encouragement. The pill-and-pray technique worked well in days gone by, when Lester would study till breakfast, nap till test time, then rise to snear at the men who said, "Gentlemen, this examination will...
...brain is a sheer pulp of newspaper headlines, self-help manuals and radio commercials ("Hi, gang! Your friend Lazarus the Laughing Leper brings you radio's newest kiddies' program, The Lives of the Saints, sponsored by Necrostyle ... Don't forget, kids, Necrostyle, the wafer-shaped sleeping pill...