Word: illicited
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...Book of the Dead, as well as the LSD that the author of Brave New World took just before he shuffled off this mortal coil. "He was so cheerful and funny," says Leary. "So sarcastic and all that." When Laura Huxley visited recently, she returned the favor not with illicit drugs but rather with a white magnifying glass that Leary uses for reading...
...downplays and ignores the constant and untiring effort of governments in these resource-poor countries to win the war against narco-trafficking. St. Kitts and Nevis continue to cooperate fully with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and they have entered into several treaty arrangements to fight the anathema of illicit drug trading. My government has undertaken to restructure, train and equip the local police force and coast guard in our fight to stem the flow of illegal drugs into our country. The drug problem is not of our own making. However, we remain committed to addressing it. GERALD DWYER ASTAPHAN...
...terrific nose for a story. One of the biggest in New York circa 1909 was illicit prizefighting, and Bellows made intensely vivid and memorable images of it. Ashcan painting, in its description of the Darwinian world of fists evoked by American realist writers like Frank Norris and Jack London, lagged behind literature by 10 years or more, but its attachment to images of clash and struggle aligned it squarely with the American cultural ideology of the day--Theodore Roosevelt's praise of the strenuous life...
...sooner had the new Prime Minister been installed in office than Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition New Frontier Party, denounced the ruling coalition as an "illicit cohabitation" and demanded an election for a new Diet, Japan's parliament. The motion was denied, but elections will have to be held by the summer of 1997, although some analysts expect them as soon as this April. How much and how fast Japan transforms itself will be determined by the victor. But regardless of who wins, the campaign will be unlike any Japan has ever seen...
...alcohol's "illicit nature" has little to do with whether students drink. Once an underage student who has been binging illegally turns 21, that underage student is not likely to go dry. The administration can do nothing about the national drinking age; any considerations of what to do about binge drinking must be outside national concerns...