Word: doped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roxbury. Within a few months he had picked up the adornments that lent to ghetto negroes a kind of status he had never known in Michigan. He wore blue or shiny grey zoot suits, burned his long red hair straight by a process called "conking", peddled reefers and dope, and slept with a white woman. Later in Harlem his reputation as a hustler grew. He played and then worked the numbers racket, pimped for male and female prostitutes, sold and took dope in increasing amounts. Back in Cambridge, he organized and led a gang of burglars who worked...
...April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago's American: MURDERER NABBED ON DOPE CHARGE...
...Princeton," purrs the guide, "is the only place in the world where, when a boy and his date walk past a mirror, it's the boy who stops to comb his hair." At Harvard girls must beware of the "dope party," which "features LSD as a starter, and anything as a finisher, and lots of great Happenings in between...
Miss Gitter alone fully brings out the momentary glimpses at the depths in her character. Her shifts between excuse and denial of re-starting her dope habit again, or between attacks on James' drinking and a quiet pride in his love are done quickly and smoothly. Her final monolog, in which her mind has floated back to her girlhood at the convent has more power than any of the masculine tirades...
...were supposed to try to accomplish. "Our job," he wrote, "is to check Nader's life and current activities, to determine what makes him tick, such as his real interest in safety, his supporters if any, his politics, his marital status, his friends, his women, boys, etc., drinking, dope, jobs, in fact all facets of his life...