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Word: forme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made stimulant--invented 80 years ago in Japan, issued to soldiers in World War II, prescribed to chunky housewives in the '50s, known to '60s hippies as speed and now sometimes passed out to antsy third-graders with attention-deficit disorder--is, at least in its crumbly, powdered street form, an upper that leads straight down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

This isn't the carefully calibrated dose of methamphetamine dispensed by pharmacists in pill form. This is crank--smoked, snorted or injected--and it makes people live like coyotes, says a cop standing outside a south-side Billings bungalow while agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration toss the place for drugs. "This town is coming unhinged," another cop says. As if to prove their point, the suspected crank house whose street-side picture windows are sheathed with tinfoil (sunlight is the cranker's natural enemy) starts belching evidence of criminal lunacy--hypodermic needles clogged with meth, automatic pistols of several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

David Morales, a truant officer for Billings School District 2 and a recovering addict, deals with the meth problem too often in the form of 10- and 11-year-olds either on the drug or suffering abuse at the hands of spun-out relatives. "I call them the ghost children," he says. "I see them all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Almost every building had some form of flooding," said John E. Cady, manager of facilities maintenance...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Torrential Rains Drench Harvard Buildings | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...Folks: You can rent any movie on any of these lists and not possibly go wrong; these are all great films. The main point of this little summit was mainly so that you would be able to read the lists and form elaborate and intense preconceptions about each one of us. So dig in. Just one favor: Go easy on the hate mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gathering of Potatoes | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

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