Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admission, Californian Clifford Rue, 30, used to be a monumental bore. He was the kind of sports fan who never could wait for the morning papers, spent half his time on the telephone badgering newspaper editors for up-to-the-minute dope. "Look," said a harassed sportswriter when Rue called him once too often, "we can't afford to take time off to give people running accounts of every cursing fight and ball game. We wouldn't have time to do anything else...
Literature abounds with testimonials by narcotics addicts-De Quincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire, Cocteau-to the beauties of the neverland to which their favorite dope has transported them. Most medical textbooks have copied each other's statements that the effect of narcotics is uniformly pleasant. But most people who try a couple of shots out of curiosity find the effects (including nausea and vomiting) so unpleasant that they stop right there. Only a few persist and become slaves to the drugs. Why the difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only...
...inside dope on stock watering, underselling, pooling and secret rebates will be available for all undergraduates wishing to enter the spring competition of the Crime's Business Board, beginning tonight, 7:30 p.m., at 14 Plympton...
Commissioner Anslinger documented his report with details supplied by the bureau network of undercover agents abroad. He named Red China's new dope factories and brands (Camel, Race Horse, Red Lion, etc.). He outlined the smuggling system, from camelback to air transport...
...some 60,000 addicts) compared to one in 400 (300,000 addicts) in 1930. In Asia, however, Communist China's lucrative narcotic trade has vastly increased drug addiction. Japan, which had no recorded drug addicts until recent years, now has 25,000 or 30,000 entirely supplied by dope from Red China...