Word: bootleged
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...Year idea caught on with a bang and, somewhat surprised, we decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade, nor a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone was runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928.) The two criteria are always these: who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did the most to change the news for better (like Stalin in 1942) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...year later he was selling bootleg liquor in his three brothers' chain of Oklahoma City drug stores (Oklahoma...
...prevent this dangerous self-dosing, 18 U.S. states and the Pure Food & Drug Administration have rules against sulfa sales without prescriptions. But bootleg sulfa is fairly easy to get. Chief customers: people with gonorrhea...
...July 4, no golden tourbillions will cascade fire down the night sky. There will be no blinding saucisson shells, no bengolas, no spidery pyro cuttlefish, no earwhacking bombshells, no climactic Niagara Falls. The U.S. is without its tradition al fireworks (except for a few bootleg pops) because the whole fireworks indus try has become a sizzling skyrocket...
...Year idea caught on with a bang and, somewhat surprised, we decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade or a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone came close to being runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928). The two criteria for the choice are always these: Who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did most to change the news for better (like Stalin this year) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...