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Word: doped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...talking about the future, the censors pricked up their ears: "There has been no speculation in the press so far," he said, "regarding the personnel of a new Cabinet, but the name of Prince Fumimaro Konoye-" Snip! The conversation was cut off. But, as usual, Wilfrid Fleisher's dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Large Order | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...evils to give himself up to the FBI chief. Month ago he slouched into Federal court. Graduate of the Connecticut Reformatory, Sing Sing, ex-loft burglar, racketeer, gorilla chief, suspected of many a murder, Lepke was there to stand trial on the first of ten indictments for smuggling dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Schlemiels | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Lepke sat in silence with no sign of expression on his lumpish face. Prison-pale were some of the witnesses. Ten of the 23 for the Government were felons, including: paunchy Yasha Katzenberg, described by the League of Nations as an "international menace," organizer of a $10,000,000 dope ring into which, he said Lepke muscled; Benny Schisoff, Coney Island frozen-custard man, implicated in the racket but free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads of drugs from transatlantic liners pass through Customs gates. Odorous was the tale they told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Schlemiels | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Yiddish: dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Schlemiels | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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