Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly the soldiers struck. Aided by U.S. Treasury Department detectives, they arrested ten growers and two officials on a Sinaloa hacienda. Then they flailed and rooted up the fields of illicit poppies...
...indicted by a federal grand jury for two violations of the Mann Act. The comedian, who married 18-year-old Oona O'Neill last June, was charged with "causing to be transported Joan Berry ... by railway . . . with the intent and purpose of having the said woman engage in illicit sex relations . . . [Indictment 1] from Los Angeles to New York" and [Indictment 2] in the other direction. Joan claims that he fathered her four-month-old daughter Carol Ann. The grand jury also accused Chaplin of conspiring with others to influence Beverly Hills Judge Charles Griffin to railroad Joan...
...course in the "ungodly" and ''sexy" modern novel back in the mid-'gos Cross acquiesced. But he slyly observed that the study of Homer's Iliad woul 1 have to be abolished from courses in Greek, for the Iliad was obviously a story about the illicit intrigue between Paris and Helen. The next year Cross gave his course in the modern novel...
...China. As he spoke, Chiang could look back on a year of compensations for hard going. Sinkiang, China's westernmost province, had crept back into the fold after ten years' illicit living with its Russian neighbor. The war had gone well enough so that many could speak of an end before the next Double Ten. There had been no important clashes with the Chinese Communists, and there was a promise on the record to call a People's Congress and adopt a democratic constitution within a year after...
...alcohol were taught to school children. Health laws were used to crack down on the worst pulquerias. (Fortnight ago, 13 brigades of 20 women each made the rounds of Mexico City's worst dives, got police to jail 380 proprietors for violations, dump 140,000 gallons of illicit pulque down the sewers.) But the best chance of smashing the pulque trade seems to be to divert it to beer. Mexican beer is among the world's best. And since 1932, the beer industry has persuaded the tax-conscious Government to reduce taxes on beer so that...