Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert S. Allen dished out a full portion of his own inside dope: "Vice President Barkley is in serious danger of going blind. [He] has advanced cataracts on both his eyes...
...York's traffic in drugs-$100 million a year in street sales-was the nation's worst. But eight other cities showed alarming increases in dope consumption: Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington and Baltimore...
...Brooklyn student testified that a boy dope peddler in his high school boasted of making from $300 to $400 a day. "I used to be the bookie in the school," said the witness. "He lost enough money to me so he should be telling the truth...
Between planes in Dallas, Madame Minister Perle Mesta gave reporters some inside political dope: General Eisenhower, she said, is not going to run for President. "That is a carefully prepared answer," she assured the newsmen, "only I haven't been able to use it till now because nobody asked me the question...
Then Winchell, who may have heard Wall Street gossip that the Securities & Exchange Commission was looking into the tips on N.P. & L., carefully denied that he had intended to tip anyone. In fact, he said, he had gotten his dope out of a broker's letter reporting that Walter Mack, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola, "was trying to buy control of N.P. & L. to be used as distributor for a new soft drink firm...