Word: acids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts. This depletion can be deadly. Lack of bicarbonate turns the blood more acid. Vomiting further dehydrates and weakens the victim; the dehydration shuts down the kidneys and allows toxic materials to accumulate in the body...
Into: to be deeply involved ("He's really into acid...
...same, the Robinsons have achieved a bigger goal: saving their relationship with Sue, a sophomore at the University of Washington, who now abhors most of the drug scene, especially "the dealers, who don't care about the poor kid on the street who gets a bum tab of acid." Who educated whom? The kids led the way, says Robinson...
...story is uncomplicated by subtlety. Maxie the daughter of an appliance dealer and his cigarette-smoking wife, is an ungrateful child. She is a Goneril who poisons herself rather than her father, although the latter alternative is never far from her mind. She sleeps around, she drops acid in the very bedroom in which her parents conceived her (oh horrible irony) and finally, even after a session with a helpful and understanding psychiatrist, she has a monumental bummer. Only the shock treatment of her mother, who reminds her of all the sacrifices she has made for poor little Maxie...
...plucking, the blare of transistor radios, and finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became a serious problem. Hundreds of youngsters suffered ill effects...