Word: dope
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...appeared on the Today show on the morning after King's assassination in 1968, wearing a turtleneck that he claimed (falsely) had been stained with the martyr's blood as King lay dying in his arms. His good looks and catchy slogans ("Put hope in your brains, not dope in your veins") captivated both the masses and the media. He was candid enough to tell blacks that many of their problems were the result of self-destructive behavior and brash enough to run for President in 1984 and 1988, garnering millions of votes from the multi-ethnic constituency he dubbed...
...Love of Dope...
...Democratic gloating about Tom Daschle's big goal-line stand on the tax cut, the number is still $1.2 trillion (and headed higher). Maybe a little rope-a-dope is what "compassionate conservatism" is all about...
...neighborhood around CB's, the old Lower East Side of New York, rents were cheap. Lofts could go for one or two hundred bucks, apartments for less. The cheap rents and the dope (which was everywhere, three dollars a bag, with 50 or 60 people lined up on 2nd St. and Avenue B waiting for the dope store to open every morning) attracted the fringe players, the ones who couldn't handle the tedium in Queens or New Jersey or suburban anywhere. From this crowd of disaffected youth emerged our players, and the stage was CBGB...
They were all from Forest Hills in Queens. Dee Dee hustled for dope money on the corner of 53rd and Third, on the run from a desolate Army-brat childhood in Germany. When he couldn't get dope he would sniff glue. He would do anything, take any kind of drug. I remember seeing him on St. Mark's Place after he left the band, hair short and spiky, in skintight Spandex pants that looked left over from some mall scene of years before. He was thin, "on the heroin diet" as we used to say. Somehow he survived, fought...