Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh ones were "a put-up job." Said a Fordham official: "Young Thorne was a fine athlete, a good student and deeply religious. He served Mass every morning in the school chapel. We would know it here, I assure you, if he had been a drinker or dope user...
...monthly-and he spent $2,500 on a two-week European trip last year. But he was so broke that sometimes he sold a pint of blood for $10. He ran up big bills at clothing stores, but his wardrobe was small; some said he peddled clothing to buy dope. Although he died with a nearly empty wallet, an open fight soon developed over the fortune...
When the Wall Street Journal ran sketches and a dope story on 1955-model cars, General Motors protested by canceling all its ads and putting an embargo on all news to America's No. 1 business newspaper (TIME, June 28). The W.S.J. stood its ground, insisted it would continue to dig up news about G.M. despite the ban. Last week G.M. and the W.S.J. announced a truce. General Motors, explained G.M. President Harlow H. Curtice, has been interested only in protecting its "property rights," i.e., its ownership of copyrighted blueprints of new models. "It was never our intention...
story. But it was not until the Journal ran a dope story on the new 1955 auto models four weeks ago (TIME, June 7) that G.M. blew a gasket. In Detroit new models are always a closely guarded secret, revealed to newsmen only on an off-the-record basis until the companies are ready to put them on sale. But the Journal refused to hear "off-the-record" information. It got its story from the tool-and-die shops of Detroit and from competing auto companies, pieced together a rough-and not always accurate-picture of what the new cars...
...royalty and high fashion, the day, as always, belonged to the cockney, the costermonger and the gypsy, swarming over the infield. Red-faced north-country farmers and pale London clerks elbowed up to canvas stalls to buy jellied eels and winkles. Touts sidled up to them, peddling inside dope. Said one oldster dressed like a jockey: "Blimey, I wish my kids were 'ere. 'Cos if they were, I could put my 'and on their 'eads and swear that this information of mine is the real goods. Now look, ladies and gents, I want you to come...