Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wells, a laundry and a mail-order house. But Millionaire Halas will never get over his pigskin heart. "You know," he said sadly last week, "there is no greater thrill in life for me than winning a National League game. Other men may get theirs from liquor, or dope, or girls or golf. For me, nothing can equal winning a football game...
STAB IN THE DARK, by Joe Rayfer (218 pp.; Morrow; $2.75), makes excessive wickedness seem just about as dull as excessive virtue. A group of down-at-heel U.S. artists wasting their time and money in Guadalajara manage to be both bored and boring as they dabble with drink, dope, adultery and murder. Best feature: the exotic setting of purple trees and pink adobe walls, as vividly colorful as a Mexican travel poster. But the characters are two-dimensional poster figures...
...purpose of this personal service is to help each individual with his own particular problems. On the Foundation's application form, the prospective student is asked to check off his deficiencies from a list which includes some fifty of the more common frailties. These include poor eyesight, alcoholic tendencies, dope addiction, unhappiness, inability to make friends, hate, fear, bashfulness, and any of four varities of sex difficulties ("over, under, fear of, perversion...
...highlights the behaviorism of junkies rather than the psychology, and ends up more a scare piece than a genuine study. Its naturalistic manner is drapery rather than flesh; it simply gives a New Look and a domestic air to melodrama. The melodrama itself is never stinted: the dope peddlers, for example, pay off as theater but bulk much too large for a serious problem play...
...most unwanted gift to Italy, onetime Manhattan Vice Czar Lucky Luciano, 57, whose 9½-year sojourn in New York pens crowned his career as a top merchandiser of dope and prostitutes, was set to go back in business selling hypodermic needles and such in Naples, where Italy's cops have him sequestered. Lucky's new racket, however, is apparently legitimate; he will soon open a clinical supply store, purveying such items as stethoscopes and bedpans to Neapolitan doctors and hospitals...