Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bartender's courage often came from marijuana, cocaine, acid, "whites" (amphetamines) and "reds" (Seconal). They are still easy to get and so are guns. "You can get any kind of a 'roscoe'-twelve-gauge shotguns, four-ten shotguns, 9-mm. pistols, 38s, .357-cal. Magnums. I remember one person outside the gang even had a flamethrower...
...enormous rock-strewn furrows, the land had no cover of vegetation, no wildlife-not even insects. With help from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump...
Separated. Glenda Jackson, 39, acid-etched British movie actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Roy Hodges, 46, her stage-director husband; after 17 years of marriage, one son. Jackson not only announced her divorce plans but also vowed she would never remarry: "The last four years of our marriage have been horrible...
...Pulitzer board's only recognition of the major news events of last year was the deserved award to the Washington Star's syndicated columnist Mary McGrory, 57, for her etched-in-acid running commentary on Watergate...
Divorced. By Maggie Smith, 40, willowy English Oscar winner (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and this Broadway season's blase, acid-tongued divorcee in Noel Coward's drawing-room classic Private Lives: Actor Robert Stephens, 43; on grounds of Stephens' adultery; after eight years of marriage, two children; in London...