Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your solution: Give all the power to one bureaucrat! Let him hire and fire at his pleasure and save governmental dignity ! The board is at least democratic. Why not advise alcoholics to switch to dope...
Border Traffic. Police Chief Pao is a man with interests in 20 businesses. In Thailand there is no business like the dope business. The U.N. Narcotics Commission brands Thailand as one of the world's biggest opium trade centers. On several occasions, Pao's police made a great show of seizing contraband opium coming across the northern border from China and paid off large government rewards to the informers. But somehow, Pao's cops never arrested any smugglers, and somehow the seized opium had a way of turning up in Bangkok's legal opium dens...
...Senate subcommittee was more confused at week's end than it was at the beginning. Said she of her husband: "He is more ethical than the word implies . . . He is just too honest, too sincere for the people who've been questioning . . . He's a dope when it comes to English...
...Soto to Tittiwee. Beale Street was a midway of dives, "conjure" doctors, fortune tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall...
...What do I mean by clean?" he asked, explaining his policy on bawdyhouses: "Keep the chippies (juveniles) out of the place. Don't handle dope in any way, shape or form. No showing of lewd sex movies." Above all, he added, reopen the old red-light district in Post Office Street...