Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the bench has studied the sordid side of narcotics law enforcement and its failures for ten years. For addicts he urges medical treatment, both physical and psychiatric, as well as help in rehabilitating themselves, and long-term doctors' care. Only thus, he argues, can the illicit traffic in marijuana and narcotics, estimated at $400 million a year in underworld profits, be wiped...
...There are now only three hospitals for addicts in the U.S.: two federal, at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, and one run by New York City for victims under 21. †Main reason most addicts turn to crime is that illicit drugs cost several hundred times the legal price, and the "habit" may set them back $500 a week...
...resistance group in an occupied country, which they argue Wales is, Glyn and his friends have put "The Voice of Free Wales" on the air at least three times a week for the past month. Dodging from house to house, from town to town, the broadcasters have spread their illicit message through South Wales. Unlike the Scottish nationalist movement, which is more intellectual and romantic, the Welsh nationalists appeal to 2,500,000 cohesive people with an intense pride in their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin and Aneurin. Welsh...
...everybody knows, novels about the South must have a cast of tormented characters, preferably demented, a generous supply of sex, mostly illicit, and some Negroes who hang around and endure. Then, if you really want to pull out the stops, add some crafty politicians who exploit the race situation out of callous disregard for their constituents. No Place To Run has all this and more, being billed as a "tense, extraordinarily powerful novel of demagoguery and personal conflict in Mississippi...
Despite this apparent step backward for the honor system, the library has never found it necessary to install a check station, such as the ones in Widener and Lamont, where students must stop and prove that they are not absconding with illicit volumes. Furthermore, the method of checking out books from the Radcliffe library has a casual, trustful air--students sign the book's card and leave it on the circulation desk, pick up a date-due slip, and depart, all without any supervision by librarians. For those used to Harvard's stricter methods, the whole procedure seems slightly haphazard...