Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painted a portrait of Kiki, and soon other painters sought her out. Foujita, the Japanese artist with the rice-bowl haircut, sketched her a score of times. Kiki became a professional model. Artists liked to paint her because she always seemed gay, never whined in self-pity, and though dope, drink and uninhibited sex all touched her, she somehow kept a kind of innocence...
When George White, a moon-faced Californian of 44, confides in a Turkish floozy, a member of the Sicilian Mafia or a Marseille Chinese that he is in the market for dope, his listeners somehow seem to trust him, and lead him right to the big drug suppliers. Using this snare in two decades of prowling the world from Butte to Bahrein, U.S. Narcotics Agent White has got the evidence that has put thousands of peddlers behind bars. His wartime hitch as a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services was no less interesting. At one point he stepped...
Finley had no difficulty keeping the huge rooms filled with students, tutors, and his other friends. Casual and stimulating, his conversation mingles imaginative similes with slang like "guy" and "dope." Much of his quiet humor is self-directed, as when he sighs, "The part I take each year in the Eliot Christmas play is generally a seedy one. Usually a frowsy old character who spouts Latin and Greek. Mrs. Finley does so wish I'd get a more dashing role...
...justice, old-age pensions, etc.), Perón sees himself as a sage as well as a strong man. Last week some of Perón's lectures at the Peronista Normal School for party leaders were published in book form in Buenos Aires; they glittered with inside dope on how to grab and hold political power. Points from the Perón philosophy...
Auctioning horses requires as much know-how as bringing them home in front. The minute a horse is put up for sale, Fasig-Tipton's pedigree department gets busy compiling a dope sheet for prospective buyers on the horse's genealogy and racing record...