Word: doping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Wall Street Journal tried to scoop the industry by coming out with a dope story, illustrated with sketches of the 1955 models of Chevrolet, Ford and Dodge. Those who have seen the new models thought that the Journal had picked up some old blueprints of the Chevrolet; there have been at least two new designs since that model. Ford executives were frankly surprised at the sketch of the front end of the Ford: it looked like a Studebaker, bore little resemblance to their 1955 model. The most accurate sketch was of the Dodge, with a flat hood...
...Never from these buildings have the police picked up anyone for dope or anything like that." And Scottish-born Mrs. Woodard wasn't impressed by Mrs. Stevenson's social position: "I had a title when I came over here. I was Lady Rogers. But that's all in the past now. I'm very proud of my name, Mrs. Woodard, and very proud of my buildings...
...easy as it is to toss off Saturday cuts as another evidence of Harvard individualism, the problem goes deeper than this. Cutting classes is like drinking or dope; it starts innocuously enough, and usually on the weekend. For example, a naive undergraduate finds he would like to go home to his sister's wedding, and as fate would have it, the event falls on a Saturday. Feeling very guilty, he nevertheless goes home and has a wonderful time, and strangely enough wakes up Monday morning with no guilt complex at all. The next weekend he decides to sleep through...
...ferreted out by a newsman and subpoenaed by the court. "I have too many Christian scruples to commit suicide, but knowing both Montagna and Piccioni, I am afraid to disappear without leaving a trace of myself. Unfortunately for myself, I have learned that Ugo is the chief of a dope ring responsible for the disappearance of many women. He is the brains of this organization, while Piero Piccioni is the assassin...
...physician, high Vatican lay officials, and Piero Piccioni, jazz-pianist son of Scelba's Foreign Minister. Wilma was allegedly seen in a car like young Piccioni's black Alfa Romeo just before her death. His chief informants, said Muto, were two girls who had participated in the dope parties...