Word: pills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Animal Kingdom. In Providence, R.I., 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...
...this would go down easily with most businessmen. But there was a bitter pill: Hopkins would boost the present wage-&-hour-act floor under wages from 40? an hour to "at least 50? and subsequently 60? an hour." (After the article appeared, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper drafted a Senate resolution to give the War Labor Board power to raise the floor to 65?.) This, said Planner Hopkins, smoothly ignoring all hold-the-line thinking, should bring approval from "enlightened businessmen." It would steady consumption "during the transition to peace...
...Wright, 72, master of the simple, sentimental, best-selling novel; in La Jolla, Calif. Farm hand, hobo, artist, house painter, lastly preacher, Wright began his writing career in 1899 after a rival clergyman convinced him that his sermons should be published, shortly turned his talents to sugaring the moralistic pill with mystery, intrigue, romance. For 21 novels (15 movies), his manly men and womanly women fought cleanly, loved truly against a backdrop of raptly described scenic grandeur. The two most famed novels: The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), 1,250,000 copies; The Winning of Barbara Worth...
...unit, moving out along the muddy Laruma River, fought it out with Japs for two days, destroyed five of their pill boxes, crossed the river with fixed bayo nets and put their disorganized enemies to rout...
...made by Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko to Secretary Hull, since all the heroes were still away on war business. Ambassador Gromyko, beaming and affable, could not forbear pointing out once more that "my country still carries the main burden of military efforts and sacrifices." He sugared this pill by prophesying that Russia's allies would have a large share in the final victory...