Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narcotics addiction, a whole generation of U.S. youth will face a terrifying danger. Just as big-time gangsters turned from bootlegging to gambling after repeal, the Senators predicted, the gamblers now feeling the heat of the committee's investigation will "unquestionably" turn to the tremendous profits of dope...
Looking it over one day early this year, a hard-eyed little dope peddler named
...staircase leads through other people's property. If the people on the top floor misbehave and disturb the quiet of other tenants, it is the right of the owner of the building to shut the door." Early last year, Scelba slammed the door. Guards, professing to look for dope, made motorists remove their wheels for inside inspection, sometimes dismantled their engines. Delays at the border often lasted eight to ten hours...
...town stag sprees, and finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...
Imperial Hearst. All the while, like Citizen Kane,* for whom he was the model, Hearst grew in wealth, if not in stature. The era of the Winsor McCay cartoons (against the yellow peril, the red peril, the dope peril, etc.) and the thundering Brisbanalities of the column Today, was also the era when Hearst's insatiable acquisitiveness reached its height. He added dozens of papers to his string, turned a score of U.S. cities into Hearst towns...