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...Which is why you've had such a rough time tryin' to find 'em. In this state there are a group of fanatics who believe that dope is evil, and they're fightin tooth and claw to wipe it out. Jesus freaks are nothin compared to narcs, and especially local narcs. They're bible totin statute quotin freaks and in my opinion they are the lowest type of scumbag because they'll get in with you and then betray you. The only character out of the Bible they forget to cite is Judas...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: CANNABIS ROAD: The Freakoid Cracker | 2/1/1974 | See Source »

...poems show that morbidity had always been her native element. In the Ariel poems, published posthumously, madness is her theme, her scream and her doom. Ominous presences lurk in the shadows of her lines. Objects, col ors, odors, nature itself claw at the raw, chafed nerves of her being. In these last works she was half in love with death and courted it to attain the only peace that her tormented spirit could apparently know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Toppled King/Torn Mind | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...fans and sportswriters alike there's a rub. The Tigers of Princeton roar, but do the Purdue Boilermakers boil? Or make? Bulldogs or Bears can fight, claw of maul but what do the Ephmen do? Something obscene, no doubt...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Does a Rose Smell as Sweet? Team Nicknames Are No Clue | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

COLUMBIA-BUCKNELL--The Lions couldn't claw their way out of a box of kitty litter. Bucknell 24, Columbia...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 9/29/1973 | See Source »

With its movable, spring-loaded hooks, the prosthesis fitted onto the stump of Dan Aycock's left arm two years ago was a substantial improvement over the ugly iron claw of earlier days. But the artificial arm still had a serious deficiency. Because Aycock, 38, who lost his arm in a textile-mill accident, was unable to tell how much pressure he was exerting on anything he was trying to pick up or use, he risked breaking the gauges and other delicate items that he handled on the job in a Louisburg, N.C., automobile agency. Now Aycock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Clippinger's Arm | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

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