Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's disabled and needy, orphans and old folks. In the name of the President and the Public Health Service, she manages one of the world's greatest medical research centers, provides operations for harelipped children and blue babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education, she distributes funds to land-grant colleges and administers the teacher-student exchange program with foreign countries. She is legally concerned with the problem of tapeworm control among Alaskan caribou, with cancer research, and with the attitude of Congress toward...
Agent Braumoeller explained that agents of his bureau often have trouble proving cases against dope peddlers because it is simply the word of the agents against the word of the seller. He wanted the Narcotics Bureau to hire a photographer to snap pictures of meetings between agents and peddlers to use as evidence. Would Reck assign a photographer to make a test? Gladly, City Editor Reck called in Keith Dennison, 54, his veteran chief photographer...
...rushed businessman shuttling between his office and his television set, U.S. News and World Report is an indispensable as a set of golf clubs. Especially important is a yellow page set in typewriter characters and called "Tomorrow," which presents the inside dope on what to expect in world affairs. To be unmistakably clear the News underlines key words like "Ike," "Malenkov," "war," and "money...
They bagged six men and a woman, and half a million dollars' worth of raw opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine and marijuana, most of it destined for the U.S. Some of the dope was foreign-made, apparently lifted from medical stocks sent by other countries as friendly help in 1949 when an earthquake hit Ecuador. But much of it came from the poppy fields which flourish under the snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing...
...received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s. At length, the seedy ones led him to houses where he paid big money ($5,000, all told) for big packages. Then, having learned the names and residences of Ecuador's busiest dope dealers, George White led the Quito cops in 48 hours of raids...