Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smugglers. Glenlivet men have been cutting Faemussach peat since 1824, when Grant's great-grandfather, George Smith, took out a license for his illicit still and legalized it as The Glenlivet Distillery. This won the enmity of his Highland neighbors, who ran some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist...
...from his first visit to Germany in 23 years. While visiting relatives on a farm near Bremen, a childhood love had been rekindled in his heart. Now he stood uneasily beside his trunk in the customs shed on Manhattan's Pier 97. John Bohling's passion was illicit in America, and he knew...
...with a woman in his office. Last week the Communist court decided in favor of the husband. As for the other woman in the case, said the court, that was easily explained: "Because of the already existing differences in the ideological level of the parties, the plaintiff entered into illicit relations with his colleague in order to further his spiritual development." The judge warned Frau Jahnke: "Marriage does not consist only in the physical relationship bound in a man's sitting in soft slippers before the fireplace but [also in] political readiness...
...sets whose owners have not paid their annual license fee of ?2 ($5.60) to the General Post Office. Since the van can detect a set only when it is turned on-and if it happens to be within a 100-ft. radius of the truck-illicit televiewers had little reason to tremble in their boots...
...doctors and nurses have to choose between mother & child, they must remember that "it is illicit for the sake of saving a mother's life to sacrifice the life of her offspring...