Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peiping, the public execution of five opium peddlers last week drew 50,000 spectators. Justifying in Washington the death penalty for dopes in China, Dr. C. S. Mei, director of the largest antiopium hospital in Shanghai, observed that an addict must be cured both physiologically and psychologically. "It takes too long a time and plenty of money," said Dr. Mei philosophically. "It is from this fact that you get the reasoning of the Chinese Government and its application of capital punishment. . . . It is China's only hope of saving the nation from the dope menace...
...Chang thus demanded vengeance in the form of war and by inference the restitution of his inheritance. Any not-too-well cured dope addict might have had this scarcely brilliant idea, but what about Reform No. 1 ? Who put pro-Red ideas into the noodle of the Kidnapper? Old Chang, when he held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad...
Only the decisive assassination of Premier Chiang would raise his kidnapping much above this indicated status. Even then Young Chang might have in mind simply taking over the whole scheme, or one like it, and attempting to carry it through with a dope addict's overweening confidence in himself. To frantic Mme Chiang, who was with great difficulty prevented from flying to Sian from Nanking, the gallant young Marshal telegraphed: "Before God, I swear I have not harmed anybody. Therefore you need not worry...
...Dorsey considers a "real addict" a person who smokes 20 to 50 cigarets a day. Such a person, wishing to cut out smoking, may try nerve sedatives, hard candy, astringent lozenges, gumchewing, but still his task is hard. "After a man has lit a cigar, cigaret or pipe after every meal for many years he will at first be at a loss what to do with his hands at such times. Likewise the confirmed cigaret smoker wants a cigaret between fingers or lips when under any tension...
Then there are, as there are on every golf course, long rolly fairways which give the cross-country addict plenty of opportunity for developing his legs and wind on average terrain...