Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little trouble cultivating a "connection" to secure marijuana-most often in the form of a $5 "nickel box" (matchbox size)-in New York City, Harvard Square, California's Sausalito and elsewhere. Up to 40 "joints" (cigarettes) can be fashioned from a box, making marijuana cheaper per kick than alcohol...
...addictive, that it does not induce the physiological craving or withdrawal symptoms of such drugs as heroin or cocaine. It affects the user's judgment, and if used daily, will dull a student's initiative and drive, but on the whole, "marijuana is probably less dangerous than alcohol," insists Rand Corp.'s drug expert William McGlothlin. "The dangers have been grossly overrated and the legal penalties are far too severe...
Paroled in 1952 after serving six years, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X,* loudly acclaimed the Muslims' professed prohibitions against tobacco, alcohol and pre-or extra-marital sex. He shrugged off his sordid past on the ground that "it was all done when I was part of the white man's Christian world." In 1958, he married a Muslim Sister named Betty Shabazz before a justice of the peace in Michigan. "An old hunchbacked white devil performed the wedding," Malcolm said later, "and all of the witnesses were devils." At the time of Malcolm's death, Betty...
Cameron & Co. point out accurately enough that distilled liquors and unfortified wines contain negligible amounts of carbohydrates. Alcohol's calories, they argue, just don't count-they somehow disappear in a mysterious metabolic process. The truth is that soon after alcohol gets out of the bottle and into a healthy liver, it goes through a series of complex processes, one product of which is a sugar (a carbohydrate). And if it is just used for energy, much of this may be turned into...
...second wife, Mexican Actress Movita, were pregnant when he married them, and that he also had a son by a Tahitian beauty whom he didn't marry. The judge decided that Marlon's methods were mere "shortcomings" compared to Anna's "reliance on drugs and alcohol," therefore awarded custody of the youngster to Brando. Cried Anna, dashing from the court in tears, "I bore this baby! Where the hell was Marlon Brando when the child was being reared?" Rhetorical question...