Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shapley, an astronomer who worries about almost everything under the stars, plumped for a "positive friendship for civilization, expeditiously organized and steadily maintained. . . . Time is short," he warned. The five great threats as he saw them in climactic order: pandemic plague, world warfare with superweapons; boredom; sexually debilitating dope; and "the genius-maniac." The simple way to dispose of the last: ". . . Kill off, while young, all primates that show any evidence of promise. . . ." The words were hardly out of his mouth before alarmed citizens were asking when the killing was supposed to start. Dr. Shapley gritted his teeth, explained that...
When mystery story writer Craig Rice was covering the Heirens murder story for a Chicago paper, Hillman called to get some dope on her assignment, was invited to go along on "a terrific clue that may break the case." It turned out to be some strange pencil scribblings on a package that one of Rice's readers had received from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It was, of course...
Taut, 43-year-old Vito Marcantonio was born in the congressional district he lives in and represents. To its gunmen, madams, policy and dope peddlers, he is "The Hon. Fritto Misto" (Mixed Fry), the man who began as a Republican with the blessing of East Harlem's Fiorello LaGuardia, the man who ladles out jobs, pocket money, speeches-anything for votes...
Ludwig Bemelmans, cosmopolitan chronicler of life backstairs (Hotel Splendide), headed home from London after giving Britons his inside dope on Hollywood, where he spent three years. "If you stay too long," said he gravely, "you wake up one day and find you are 84 and it's all been a pleasant dream...
...Detecting new traces of dope in the nation's underworld, the Bureau of Narcotics got busy, traced the dope to WAA. Dope peddlers had been buying surplus life rafts to get the rafts' medicine kits. Each one contained five syrettes of morphine (2½ grains...