Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a "dope in shining armor" (his own description), a young man with a broken nose and a pair of dark glasses bounded into Manila's City Hall and plumped himself down at the mayor's desk. The broken nose, a football injury, belonged to Arsenio H. Lacson, 40, the ribald, rambunctious reformer whom Manilans chose as their first elected mayor in 1951. Lacson was back at his desk last week after 73 days' suspension from office by Filipino President Elpidio Quirino...
...retired General Walter Krueger, World War II commander of the island-hopping Sixth Army. But to Dorothy Smith, brunette and high-strung, the lot of a conscientious soldier's wife was not a happy one. Monotony unnerved her, loneliness oppressed; she sought excitement in alcohol, forgetfulness in dope. The colonel, she believed, regarded his wife as a clinging handicap to his professional career...
...commission concentrated its fire on Luchese. From Supervisor George White of the New England Division of the Bureau of Narcotics came testimony that Luchese was believed to have succeeded Costello as "coordinator of the narcotics rackets" and was, in effect, a policymaking chairman of the board of a nationwide dope ring...
...Journal's cold dope on the dogs was out of date. From 1900 to 1949, the dogs sometimes carried brandy, sometimes tea. Now the dogs no longer do rescue work alone, but accompany men who carry the liquid refreshments them selves. And instead of the old St. Bernard breed, the hospice is using crossbred dogs -part bulldog, terrier and Pyrenees shepherd...
...Newsday put up $500 bail and got its reporter out of jail. Then Kellerman and Hathaway went to the police. At first, the police could hardly believe their story or that anyone could buy heroin in sleepy Riverhead. But the evidence convinced them. To catch the dope peddlers, Kellerman agreed to go back to jail as a prisoner. But when Kellerman finally managed to make his second "buy," the "junk" turned out to be nothing but aspirin, epsom salts and barbiturates...