Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Store 24 presently has an edge because most shoppers already know it's there. "I got in the habit of coming here when I was at Harvard Summer School, [and] I keep coming back," explains Store 24 patron Joel H. Friedman, an MIT undergraduate...
Store 24 presently has an edge because most shoppers already know it's there. "I got in the habit of coming here when I was at Harvard Summer School, [and] I keep coming back," explains Store 24 patron Joel H. Friedman, an MIT undergraduate...
...incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes in the South and other sections of the country." Southern sheriffs believed cocaine even rendered blacks impervious to .32-cal. bullets (as a result many police departments switched to .38-cal.). Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope," concluded the blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit, in 1903, "we can get along without him." Despite the opposition of U.S. drug companies, the government began to crack down. Many states...
...finally be trying to kick its habit, but other countries around the world are just getting hooked. Like blue jeans and rock 'n' roll, America's drug culture has been exported to European and Asian youth. Although statistics are hard to come by, drug use seems to be expanding worldwide, especially in the countries that export drugs...
Since tiny quantities of synthetic drugs can supply a user's habit for days, "one clandestine lab can spit out as many drugs as a foreign country," says David Smith, director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. Last year California lawmen raided 235 illegal drug factories, but they say that for every lab hit, three others were missed...