Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Latest radio pirate is Radio Nord, an American-owned, 20-kilowatt pirate radio station operating from a converted German freighter named the Bonjour anchored just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord...
Ross maintained that the purpose of the investigation in New York was illicit and in reality an attempt of the Committee to influence a dispute in the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). This argument was ruled out of order, as had been most of Ross's efforts to prove this point to the judge earlier...
Taking the affirmative side of the proposal: "Resolved: That the HUAC should be abolished," HYDC speakers James G. Vaughter '63 and Charles A. Stevenson '63 condemned the Committee as "illicit in its operations, ineffective in holding hearings determine needed legislation, and a source of danger to Constitutional safeguards...
...triumph for the virtuous, "dry," citizens of Corallis, who preach lasting welfare on John Barleycorn, but used to sneak out behind the shed every once in a while anyway. Undoubtedly, the most preached- against man in the county is Angelo Bonatura, who has the local monopoly in the illicit liquor trade, a monopoly that has taken him eight years and an artful homicide to complete...
...tiring veteran of the writing wars, is blocked on the plot of his latest novel. When the words will not come, he resorts to a form of inspiration that is not new in the writing game-although his name for it is: he goes on a brief, illicit sexual romp he calls a fête. His worldly-wise wife Léone ("I have made love with many men") indulges his impulses. When Lucie, who adores bop records and Duc's novels, arrives at the novelist's villa outside Paris, Due gets...