Word: doped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winning Cabinet. Neither candidate is about to confide his list yet, even if he had one waiting in his inside coat-pocket. Nor is he about to make premature promises, when uncertainty makes all potential Cabinet members campaign hard for the candidate. Sideline guessers can claim no inside dope. But here are some of their choices...
...result of treating religion as the opium of the people is that, like the dope traffic, it goes underground and thrives. A glimpse of this Russian underground was visible last week when Communist authorities announced a double haul netting several makers and pushers of religious objects, whose private manufacture is forbidden...
...expect too much. His father's a Dartmouth man." (Director Pearson cannot remember what happened to him.) ¶ "Walter is not an outstanding student, but his family background is exceptional and his character impeccable. I can assure you that he will never be a dope fiend or a barfly." (Rejected.) ¶ "It is worth noting that this boy has been caught three times smoking on the school bus." (Rejected by one vote, with smoking members of the admissions committee unanimous in disapproval.) ¶"We have started to mold this boy. but have made only a modest beginning. Charles remains...
...rebel' is very easy. To grow a beard, to be sexually brave, to take dope even to kill-all these are understood experiences of 'nonconformism.' The one thing you cannot do is think, i.e., to build on your private definition of the world, and so to enjoy what Thomas Mann called the 'wealth of the mind'-that which makes a writer feel that he has a world in his hand ... I insist that in present terms, the theater of perversion, of 'sexual frankness,' of open violence, moves us farther away from the authentic...
Unfavorable Accents. The New York Times's veteran Arthur Krock, admitting that "this is only dope, but American politicians are incurably addicted to its use," passed on this consensus of Washington politicians...