Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lushly romantic Mayerling, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out the theory of a suicide pact, inspired by Emperor Franz Joseph's order to break off the love affair. The real dope, whispers the new picture confidentially, is that the Prince (Jean Marais) and Marie Vetsera (Dominique Blanchar) were victims of a political intrigue. They planned suicide, all right, even left notes. But after they changed their minds, a German agent slipped into the bedroom and finished the job with his pistol...
...London; 125, 6d), a collection of his columns which have been carefully edited with the wisdom of hindsight. Some still unedited Iddon items: ¶"The electric chair is working overtime and Sing Sing's Death Row is jammed as detectives round up gun-happy youths hepped up with dope." ¶"The sleeping-pill habit is getting more widespread [in Hollywood]. Actors and actresses take them to get a few hours' rest and then swallow benzedrine in the morning to do their work." ¶"The simple truth about the Negro in America . . . is that he is treated as subhuman...
...business?" When any conversation strays far from engines Rentschler's eyes glaze over, and he stops listening. Wherever his men travel, he expects them to send him constant memos on anything they hear. If one hears an admiral say, "The Navy needs more engine power," Rentschler wants the dope by wire...
...this point Danny's story had a deadly familiar ring. Every year, thousands of teen-agers take the first step to narcotic addiction-usually by smoking a reefer (a cigarette containing marijuana) because they don't want to be called "chicken." Dope peddlers have been pushing their wares through high schools and street gangs. Now estimates of the number of addicts range anywhere from...
...like most addicts I didn't care anything about God. It might work for those drunks but not for us. But after a while I began to feel that this group had the answer." Danny studied the A.A. code, saw how it could be applied to discharged dope victims, and founded Narcotics Anonymous...