Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time, however, Britain's pill would at least have a nice new saccharine coating. The campaign for more and harder work would be called, not austerity but a "prosperity drive"; if the drive went well, Attlee thought that by year's end the British people might expect the supply of consumer goods to be "halfway back" to prewar standards...
Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...
...Portland, Ore., John R. Polioudakis, proprietor of a grocery store, answering a stranger's query, was hit over the head with an iron pipe when he uttered the fighting phrase: "Sorry, no cigarets." February. In Providence, State Labor Director William L. Connolly reached for an aspirin, swallowed a pill for his wife's petunia plant instead, grew panicky, was calmed by an agricultural expert who informed him that he had merely taken the equivalent of 18 bushels of horse manure and had nothing to worry about...
...socialization were Premier Vilhelm Buhl's Social Democratic Party, strongest in the country, and the revivified Communist Party (the two did not campaign together). Against were Liberals and Conservatives. The voters' verdict was a surprise. Social Democrats lost 18 of their 66 seats, a pill that was not sweetened by the Communist advance from three to 18. Liberals boosted their 28 seats to 38, Conservatives held 26 of their 31. Smaller right and left parties stood their ground...
...bitter pill in Harry Truman's drink was a rider which ordered the return of United States Employment Service to state control within 30 days. It pointedly ignored the President's "urgent" recommendation that the control of USES be retained by the Federal Government "at least until . . . June 30, 1947" and that its appropriation be increased by $10 million...