Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian murder conviction in 1959 by matching the accused's hair with tiny hair samples found on the victim. The first such U.S. conviction occurred last winter in a New York federal court, which accepted N.A.A. evidence as proof that the soil found on a truck hauling illicit liquor matched the soil around a moonshiner's still in Georgia...
...they always are (the theater is the same one where Burton plays Hamlet), trying to glimpse Richard and Elizabeth. I read in the paper that Richard said it is a mystery to him why the crowds are there every night. "At first I thought the somewhat illicit quality of our relationship before we were married was bringing them," he told a reporter from the Times. "We assumed that once we were married it would stop...
...pill by Vatican theologians is completed-and Paul gave no indication whether it would be resolved by the time the Vatican Council reconvenes in September-Catholics were still bound to obey Pope Pius XII, who declared that the pill was a form of sterilization, and therefore an illicit means of birth control...
Loser Lawrence was no isolated vic tim. Of the 70 million credit cards in circulation in the U.S., no fewer than 1,500,000 are lost each year, and of these 60,000 have been stolen. Illicit charges run up on a stolen card are estimated to average $500. And stealing credit cards is an increasingly popular crime; dollar losses from their misuse increased eightfold from...
...addition to bagging bums, police use vagrancy laws as catchalls with which to hold crime suspects during investigations, to keep tabs on illicit activities, to chase undesirables out of town, and to pester criminals on whom they have been unable to pin a rap. In general, the attitude is that the laws are there to use when no other law will serve. New Orleans uses vagrancy laws to jail gamblers. St. Louis police haul in prostitutes for vagrancy "just to let them know we have them under surveillance." In Philadelphia a man who insisted on making love to his wife...