Word: dope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nether border of the Negro's world is Central Park. From just one block north, the fresh breezes and greenery seem a planet distant. Here is 111th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, infested with prostitutes and dope addicts. Up a ways, at 118th and Lenox Avenue, is "junkie's corner," and at the New York Central overpass at 125th Street, over which suburban commuters ride every day between air-conditioned offices and well-kept homes, Negro prostitutes wait for white johns who know the spot and drive by in their cars...
...problem. Of New York's 30,000 junkies, 15,000 to 20,000 live in Harlem. "I was just born black, poor and uneducated, and you only need three strikes all over the world to be out, and I have nothing to live for but this shot of dope," says one addict. But the habit is costly: $1 for a marijuana "reefer," $3 for a "bag" (a single grain of heroin), $5 for a "deck" (three grains). A heavy user may need up to $75 a day, and that often means mugging people and sometimes killing them...
Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci continued his battle for a healthier Harvard in the City Council yesterday with an emphatic denunciation of alleged dope peddling in the Square area...
Dean Watson said last night that the University "would not tolerate" the use of dope by any students. He emphasized that national, state, and city police officials were constantly on the lookout for any peddling in the Square area and that the University was always willing to cooperate with the various agencies. But Watson indicated there was nothing alarming in the present situation...
...next generation: "Our youngsters at least begin the shift from a whisky culture to a dope culture...