Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Genetic Laws. Computer specialists everywhere have developed such a mania for Life that millions of dollars in illicit computer time may have already been wasted by the game's growing number of addicts. This week Life reached maturity when a paper discussing its problems and potential was on the agenda at a major computer conference in Washington...
There are a number of different sources for the pollutants in the Charles, Noss said. Surprisingly enough, industrial polluters play a comparatively minor role--at least according to most government officials. Considerable amounts of industrial pollution, some of it illicit or illegal, apparently continues. One company is still dumping waste cyanide in the river, two years after the MDC was notified, according to the Globe. The Cott Beverage Company dumps waste soda pop, its contents high in sugar, a highly concentrated polluter, into the river. There are other cases too. But officially at least, these things aren't most important...
Fascinated by their response, Alsop asked Science Writer Edward Brecher, author of Licit and Illicit Drugs (Consumers Union, 1972), if doctors had studied this problem. Brecher, whose book describes tobacco as "one of the most physiologically damaging substances used by man," cited serious psychiatric and metabolic reports on the subject. For many smokers, psychological needs combine with nicotine addiction to produce a powerful dependency. Beyond that, he could empathize with Alsop. Brecher gave up cigarettes for 14 months, but started smoking again when he found that he simply could not work without them...
...Clemente. At the time, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler called the story "malicious, ill-founded and scurrilous." Although the new accounting did not document the source of personal funds used in Nixon's various transactions, it demonstrated fairly convincingly that he neither used nor had need of illicit funds...
While still in his teens, Bobby became a steady winner, but he was never fully accepted by the tennis establishment. He was too blatant about breaking the amateur rule against taking illicit payments and too big in the mouth. He claims that he was at first denied a spot on the U.S. Davis Cup team, though his record warranted it. Later, after he had taken the national singles championship twice and swept Wimbledon in 1939 (singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles), he was still not accorded the respect that contemporaries like Don Budge and Fred Perry received. He just...