Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devoured westerns. J.F.K. was a Bond addict. What does Lyndon read? When repeatedly pressed by a newsman during the 1964 campaign, the President unenthusiastically produced a much unthumbed copy of the speeches of William Jennings Bryan. Recently, however, with no prompting at all, Johnson has been touting the L.B.J. Selection-of-the-Century: The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations by Britain's Barbara Ward. It sells for a dollar in paperback, its 159 pages largely devoted to the problems of Kikuyus and Kazakhs. Yet, avows the President, "I read it like I do the Bible...
Part of Cation's popularity rests, to be sure, on the habits of the Civil War buff, who cannot resist buying everything. The addict knows all there is to know about the Civil War, and impatiently awaits the next title so that he can begin the exhilarating task of exposing the author's−any author's−bad judgment. Catton too is a buff; more buff, perhaps, than pedant. And because he is, he makes an ideal guide...
...something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence." By the end of his three month visit, he had become "an addict to America-worse than alcohol...
...addict is really serious about racing, he can enter one of the 9,000 stock-car or 2,000 sports-car races held in the U.S. each year. For $1,000, he can even take a one-week course in competition driving from Racer-Designer (Ford-Cobra) Carroll Shelby. For the really successful racing driver, the rewards are great. Fred Lorenzen has already won $63,675 on the stock-car circuit this year, and A. J. Foyt, who is equally adept in stock cars, sports cars and Indianapolis roadsters, won $250,000 in 1964. Another field is that...
Stealth & Strategy. In a similar case that reached the Supreme Court in 1958 (Sherman v. U.S.), a narcotics addict "on the cure" sold drugs to an informer only after repeated pleas for help. The court called that entrapment too: "The power of Government is abused and directed to an end for which it was not constituted when employed to promote rather than detect crime and to bring about the downfall of those who, left to themselves, might well have obeyed...