Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he considered quite obvious, in the hope that intelligent people would appreciate the irony." This explanation suggests, in Author Pearson, a lack of appreciation both of the elements of irony and the demands of politics. Dizzy had no such lack. When a Tory snooper collected evidence of an illicit love affair involving Whig Lord Palmerston, and wanted to expose it at the next election, Dizzy sensibly demurred. "Palmerston is now 70," he said. "If he could provide evidence of his potency . . . he'd sweep the country...
Corned Beef. Near Denton, N.C., after he noticed an alarming outbreak of butting, kicking and downright foolishness in his cattle herd, Farmer C. P. Ward moseyed through the woods near his pastureland, stumbled across an illicit moonshine still...
...letter to the Dally Princetonian, the students protested that such tactics are "insidious," and "erotic rhetoric," and reminiscent of vendors of "illicit love potions...
...fertility and the fish forsaking the shore," the islanders went on potting lobsters, growing vegetables and grazing cattle. They were safe in the knowledge that their economy rested on another custom, the origin of which was also lost in the mists of antiquity: the manufacture of poteen illicit whisky...
...from being clandestine, station WKGR was a widely known local enterprise. He had no trouble finding its studio offices on the second floor of a building on Marysville's main street, and he was greeted by a cheerful receptionist who readily took him in to see the illicit station's five owners and operators. General Manager Gene Kirby, 19, admitted, with modest pride, that WKGR had "just grown" from a ham station he had built in his family's backyard garage five years ago, when the general manager was 14. His transmitter, from a beat...