Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inevitably, Rocky made his tour through a long series of reform schools and jails. He was a big shot, a guy who shared lice-ridden cells with drug addicts, crooked politicians, bookies, lunatics and gunmen. During his few periods of freedom he did a little "amateur" boxing for pocket money, but most of the time the thugs he traveled with had no use for padded gloves. A lead pipe was better...
...uses. They quell much of the agitation and bickering of senile patients. General paresis (the result of long-standing syphilitic infection) has yielded spectacularly to treatment with reserpine. One patient at the District of Columbia's mammoth St. Elizabeths Hospital has provided a wry quantitative measure of the drug's effect. He had suffered for years from the hallucination that each night 1,000 women visited his room. After the calming effect of reserpine he is still hallucinated-but 99.9% improved: now he has visions of only one woman each night...
While relentlessly pursuing international drug traffickers, however, Louis Métra confessed a romantic sympathy for the addicts - especially artists, writers and wealthy thrill-seekers - who bought their goods. "My curiosity is renewed each time I watch an opium smoker going through the rite," he once said. "It is like a priest venerating a divinity. The bluish smoke goes up like incense dedicated to some ethereal goddess. Opium smokers are delicate, delicious people...
...Chief Inspector Louis Métra retired from the force and set up practice as a private detective, and most of the Paris underworld breathed easier. Many of Louis' old friends among the drug addicts continued to visit him at his new office below Montmartre. They visited him so regularly, in fact, that Louis' former colleagues became suspicious. One day last fall, armed with a telescope, police in an apartment across the street watched two known female addicts drop in on Louis and pick up a large package. They followed the women back to their apartment and caught...
Higher Law. In Vancouver, B.C., convicted of concealing a felony when he refused to identify two gunmen who had attempted to kill him, suspected Drug Peddler William ("Bill the Painter") Semenick explained to police that he was silent because "I am on one side of the fence, and you are on the other...