Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brady's miracle formula is: One month before examinations begin taking two grains of quinine sulfate in pill tablet, or capsule form, night and morning after meals. Continue doing so through exam period. At the same time take a Vitamin B-1 pill daily...
...when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked for a nail file. Then, sprinkling the powder on the file and sniffing it, she said: "This is really the only way it's effective, dahling...
...unquestionable heroism of these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges...
Franklin, who never took a sleeping pill in his life ("I can sleep standing or walking"), hopes to put ipecac in rat paste, and other poisons that people sometimes take by mistake. Said he last week: "It isn't only the money which I may make out of this which is exciting, it's the fact that we'll be saving lots of lives...
...crowd of 75 soda-drinking and candy-munching spectators heard Hyman Pill vote for hifself 15 times, thereby preventing any majority vote...