Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tied by Ohio State, and Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady, a rampaging redhead, ran off with the ball game. Still shaken, last week the Badgers lost another to Iowa, 13-7. ¶ Rice had Rapid Richard Moegle, last year's Cotton Bowl hero, but it managed to upset the dope by losing to Wisconsin and S.M.U. ¶ Purdue turned up with a hot-handed teenager, Len Dawson, who passed the Boilermakers to an astonishing upset over Notre Dame (27-14). But if Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi and his "Irish" teammates were something of a disappointment, Dawson and Purdue were soon the same...
...What's the dope?" I asked the genial strategist, grabbing...
...preaching practice. Billy began at a Tampa mission for derelicts, drunks and dope addicts. His first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy...
Another variety of inside-dopester wants to know the inside dope because it helps him get status and approval in his peer group. Inside-dopesters frequently change the content of their politics in response to changed fads in their peer groups...
Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...