Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helen MacInnes (307 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is a sentimental travelogue spiced with a warning to all impulsive tourists: mind your own business. Horning in on a 3 a.m. kidnaping on the Via Veneto makes a lovelorn Harvardman miss the boat to New York, involves him with assorted dope peddlers, spies, a Sicilian triggerman turned legitimate, an Italian aristocrat turned Communist, and a dark-eyed golden-skinned Roman girl who did a turn at Radcliffe. It all leaves him too jumpy to enjoy the landscape between Rome and Perugia, or even the pleasures of an assignation near the Borghese Gardens...
...carried. But the razor wielder wildly demanded more money, sprawled into the front seat, pulled a pistol, and said, "I'm going to kill you anyway." Figuring "by then I had run out of chances," Dougherty grabbed the pistol and killed his fare, a 23-year-old dope addict...
...injections of Government spending (dope) by Uncle Sam (the doctor) result in strengthening public confidence and in adding push to the private economy (the patient), then the treatment will be proper. Of course, the patient ought to get well enough to go off dope and pay the doctor's bill...
...Cahn, in the 1000, and Sandy Dodge in the dash, are two who could upset the pre-meet dope and add valuable points for the Crimson...
...this afternoon, there just aren't enough of those Crimson darkhorses who continually perform above their capabilities and upset the dope. Ed Martin, figured for fifth in the mile, but expected to finish higher, is out with a damaged Achilles tendon, and Dyke Benjamin, in the same category in the two mile, has pulled his gastrocnemic muscle, that large, practically invulnerable muscle of the calf, and this will keep him out of action...