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Word: alterna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listening to both sides, and there are parts of it I would agree with and parts I would disagree with," says candidate Timothy Toomey, a School Committee member who has not yet decided whether to ask for CCA endorsement. Toomey says he is considering developing an alterna-alternative plan that would combine elements of both sides...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: CCA Faces Tough Council Race | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alterna tive to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in in verse ratio to accuracy. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss a satis factory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would be preferable to alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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