Word: potions
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...jogs memorialized on the cover of Newsweek. What Carter had in 1976 and Bush has in 1980 is a young, enthusiastic organization that started early in Iowa and capitalized on that state's affection for down-to-earth, visible politicians. After Iowa, the press blessed Carter with its bewitching potion, momentum. Bush now tastes the same nectar. In fact, he chortles that he has cornered the market on the stuff...
...soon finds that the coffin in which J.W. Booth has been interred is empty. He also finds that Washington City, as it was then called, is a nest of intrigue and calumny. Even the greatest names are not free of suspicion. Cosgrove, posing as a salesman of a potent potion called Hostetter Bitters, works out of a safe house on K Street...
...going to happen. And we better not have any of our children left when it's over. Because they'll parachute in here on us. [He feared the Guyanese army would retaliate.] So you be kind to the children and be kind to seniors, and take the potion like they used to take in ancient Greece, and step over quietly, because we are not committing suicide−it's a revolutionary...
...been around since at least the 15th century B.C., when it was used in China as an anesthetic, a ritual potion, a condiment and an intoxicant. As it moved on to India and beyond, it was applied to all manner of miseries: allergies, rheumatism, falling hair, tapeworm, leprosy, gonorrhea, failing memory and dandruff. Today marijuana is being considered as a treatment to reduce eyeball pressure in glaucoma patients and to reduce vomiting by cancer patients receiving drug therapy...
...nurses started taking the babies from the mothers. Jones kept saying, 'Hurry, hurry!' But the people were not responding. The guards then moved in and started pulling people, trying to get them to take the potion." Clayton had seen enough. "It was dark by now. I went around to each of the guards, embraced them and told them, 'I'll see you later.' I skipped out into the bushes. All the time I kept saying to myself, 'I can't believe this. Jim Jones...