Word: illicited
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...famous "troika"-or three-man-control over all aspects of a test ban. This would give the Communists a veto any time the Western member at a lonely inspection post deep in Russia decided a suspicious cloud of dust or a distant rumble needed checking out as a possible illicit nuclear explosion...
...Commenting on the "tradition" that a captain goes down with his ship [RELIGION Aug 11], L'Osservatore Romano is quoted as condemning the practice as "morally illicit" and equivalent to suicide. I am afraid L'Osservatore is allowing itself to over-romanticize a so-called tradition that (in so far as it ever existed) really had a much more prosaic foundation...
...anticipating a doctrine which may be in the womb of time, but whose birth is distant." He was also a charitable judge who could write, in reversing a lower court's refusal to grant citizenship to a woman because of contentions of bad moral character, that "a continued illicit relationship is not inevitably an index of bad moral character...
...laws to prevent the spread of syphilis, and it was a prompt advocate of premarital examinations, which became general by 1937. Sample resolution in 1910: "The American Medical Association, through its House of Delegates, hereby presents for the instruction and protection of the lay public the unqualified declaration that illicit sexual intercourse is not only unnecessary to health, but that its direct consequences in terms of infectious disease constitute a grave menace to the physical integrity of the individual and of the nation...
...Africans seem to get all the liquor they want. The more opulent buy cheap South African brandy for $3 to $4 a bottle from white bootleggers who pick it up at $1.68 in the whites-only stores. The rest drink their troubles away at the illicit drinking parlors of "shebeen queens." wealthy black matrons who serve a throat-scalding, home-distilled brew made by boiling together potato peelings, berries and sometimes a dash of methylated spirits...