Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes of the whole newspaper-reading world focused in fascination on the pudgy, amiable defendant, expert after expert took the stand at the behest of the crown's prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller. No one denied that on Dr. Adams' orders large doses of heroin, morphine and paraldehyde had been administered to the ailing, 81-year-old widow during the long illness that preceded her death. Only the experts could say whether this medication had hastened her end or merely, as the defense contended, eased the pain of her inevitable passing. The more the experts talked...
...them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel is peculiarly fascinating for its creation of a new war generation in print, a kind of fighting man who could go into combat spouting bop talk, read the plays of Sophocles between barrages, and sniff heroin for kicks when away from the MLR (Main Line of Resistance...
...Public Office. In Oakland, Calif., after they found $500 worth of heroin in his car, cops locked up Dope-Peddling Suspect Robert McShann despite his plea: "You gotta let me out of here or there'll be panic in the streets. I was just making deliveries...
Kiss Me, Deadly. In Boston, after she visited her husband at the Deer Island jail, embraced him affectionately, Mrs. Joan Witherspoon was arrested, charged with passing him heroin capsules...
...Reconciled, in a Senate-House conference, conflicting measures on stiffer penalties for narcotics pushers. Most important agreements: to permit juries to direct a death sentence for dopesters convicted of selling heroin to minors, raise the top sentence for hardened dope passers (three or more violations) from 20 to 40 years. The bill now goes back to both houses for final approval before being sent to the President...