Word: dope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Species of Superman? The mercenary apparently gets great emotional satisfaction from his work. In a new book, Congo Mercenary, Colonel Hoare, who is now retired and living on a yacht moored off Durban, reflects that a large number of his recruits were drunks, dope addicts and ("the greatest surprise of all") homosexuals...
...When I'm pregnant, it's just like taking dope," said the Negro woman bearing her ninth child at the District of Columbia General Hospital in Washington. "I can hardly wait to get home so I can get some more starch," she added, referring not to starchy foods but to laundry starch. "Sometimes I'll eat two or three boxes...
...collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings of a major dope scandal...
Died. Thomas Gaetano Luchese, 67, alias "Three-Finger Brown" (he lost his right forefinger in an accident), shadowy underworld figure named in 1963 by Gangland Songbird Joe Valachi as a ranking dope racketeer and presumed successor to Frank Costello as the Mafia's New York political fix-it man, a dapper native of Sicily whose only prison time, despite two murder arrests, was a short term on a 1922 stolen-car rap, all the while fiercely maintaining that his luxurious home and six-figure income was the product of honest hard work in his Seventh Avenue garment factories; after...
...Minh is Japanese." He is convinced that by educating them, even scantly, in Vietnamese history, he has moved many "one step closer to a dove position." Complete conversions don't happen, but at the very least, Emonds concludes, "the hawks find out that the peacniks aren't all beatniks, dope fiends, or Commies...