Word: dope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I graduated in 1968, dope and gangs were already invading our campus, which is tucked into the far northeastern corner of the San Fernando Valley. Black and Latino students were in ferment over civil rights, and there were ugly clashes with white students and teachers. Black pupils rioted for several days to protest the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. Only a full-scale police occupation of the campus restored order. Today nine security guards, two of whom carry pistols, keep violent confrontations and drug use on the premises to a minimum...
None of them has had previous acting experience -- or any experience as criminals. They are carefully screened to make sure that their records are clean. Explains Pledger: "We don't want real felons on the job. This is not a training ground for bank robbers or dope dealers. Also we don't accept anybody from the Soviet embassy...
...work at Hogan's Alley is enough to make most role players swear off a life of crime. Says Ronald Grayson, 33, of Triangle, Va., who plays a dope peddler: "You get to see how the law works without being on the wrong end of the stick. When they twist those cuffs on you, boy, it makes you think." Hogan's Alley has a similar sobering effect on its students. Says Raymond, an agent-trainee whose last name was withheld to protect him from the genuine criminals he will encounter after he graduates: "When you arrest someone, it hits...
...doesn't take much exposure to the residents of Fayette County to discern the profound social conservatism that permeates the mountain communities. One elderly woman at the church lowered her voice to a whisper to say "I hope they ain't any dope at Harvard." I suspect that the most hated phrase in southern West Virginia is "gun control...
...cocaine gangs have made peace offers before, but the Colombian , government has never bought them. The day after the Extraditables issued their statement through two kidnaping victims they had released, Barco's administration rejected the dope dealers' overture, telling them to save it for the judge...