Word: hashish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some Wafd members of Parliament were either hashish traders or patrons of them...
Huseyin Avni, an ardent patriot of the small Turkish town of Seferihisar, loves his country and loves his hashish.* One day not long ago, after a zesty breakfast of coffee and hashish, Huseyin glanced out of his window and, to his horror, saw a detachment of Soviet soldiers standing menacingly in the garden of his neighbor. Without a moment's hesitation, he seized an axe, leaped the fence and began laying about with a will. He dropped three to the ground before the police, hastily summoned by the neighbor, at last subdued Huseyin long enough to point out that...
...Hashish (from the Arabic word for dried herb), a narcotic made from the resin of female flowers of Indian hemp, is the Eastern version of marijuana. It was once the favorite stimulant of the Assassins (more properly Hashish-ins), a secret society of Shiite fanatics founded in the 11th century, whose drastic political actions led to the gradual adoption of their name as a synonym for killer...
What About Hashish? When the lecture was over, Dr. Helai asked for questions. From both newsmen and Heretics came a barrage. What was the Buddhist attitude toward opium? What about hashish? Could the good Doctor provide a sample of opium? To the last question, Dr. Helai calmly replied that if the chairman of the meeting would examine the cigarette he had given him, he would find that it bore no manufacturer's mark. The dazed chairman took a nervous look at his cigarette and hastily scrunched...
...Jones waited anxiously, for sometimes the nearsighted Dromgoole seemed to be straying wildly from his notes. For long stretches at a time, he would blurt out fanciful ad libs ("I thought he would never stop," says Thompson). And then there was that terrible moment when he was asked about hashish ("He had obviously never heard of it!"). At another time, after reading, "Some medical people will tell you that opium makes your pupils small," Dromgoole apparently could find only a blank in his notes. But even in this crisis, the Heretics sat transfixed. "So what?" said the amazing Dr. Helai...