Word: doping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sheer atmosphere of Watts takes a toll. Says Family Counselor Mary Taylor: "Children lose that good feeling about themselves." Ueemaee Russell, 11, who lives on Grape Street (just off "Charcoal Alley," as 103rd Street has been called since it burned), knows that "people are fighting now over dope and getting raped and kidnaped." When gunfire gets too bad near her house, Sixth-Grader Russell deals with it by crawling under...
...woke up, Tug was striking me out. I was the one who lost the World Series. I felt so negative about myself that I hibernated. I didn't go outside in the day. I came out at night." He calls it "probably the starting point of my getting on dope." Back from the dead, or at least from the penitentiary, Wilson brought a bubbly attitude to this Series even before he started tripling. "I'm going to enjoy playing the game of baseball and be happy win or lose," he promised...
This five-record set could have been all unreleased songs. If it was worth my while, I could put together a ten-record set of unreleased songs, songs that have never gotten out and songs that have been bootlegged. Bootlegging is a big business. It's like the dope business. It's supposed to be illegal, but a lot of people make their livelihood...
...there a terror connection?"). But these are quibbles. In a thriller, plot is all and once it gets going, At Risk is never less than compelling. The book was vetted--as was Rimington's first--by MI5, but they didn't strip out all the inside dope, which arrives in fascinating little flashes as Liz identifies obscure Russian ammunition, jokes about the macho idiots in MI6 (Britain's CIA) and delicately recruits a young Muslim agent. Most striking, though, is that with the terrorist threat mounting and untold lives at stake, Liz seems to be enjoying herself. "Well," says Rimington...
Yeah, if it can be any more cliché. I'd love to see this transaction in print. That would be dope...