Word: illicitly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth began his campaign to eliminate illicit drug use from the sport last month, a grand jury in Pittsburgh was hearing testimony from at least eleven players about possible drug dealers in or around the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh clubhouses. Last week the grand jury indicted seven people who had associated with major league players, charging them with more than 160 counts, mainly for distributing cocaine. No players were indicted, although some had reportedly testified under immunity from charges...
...Cosby Show is the sort of hit that warms the hearts of even the coldest TV critics. Unlike other prime-time successes of recent years, such as Dallas and The A-Team, the series does not trade in illicit sex, cliff-hanger endings or car chases. It is a wholesome and rather sweet portrayal of a relatively realistic household. Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable and his family happen to be black, but no special point is made of that fact--a refreshingly mature treatment of the matter of race...
Babette takes drugs but not your average drugs. Responding to a tabloid advertisement--"Live Forever!"--she becomes involved in an illicit experiment, ingesting secret pills to assuage her Fear of the Unknown. Jack is clued into her shenanigans and, typically enough in this novel, confronts her with his suspicions over the kitchen tabl. It is a touchy subject for Babette: "To the best of my knowledge, Jack, I'm not taking anything that could account for my memory lapses. On the other hand I'm not old. I haven't suffered an injury to the head and there's nothing...
Before reading, Rich humorously recalled her undergraduate years at Radcliffe. She noted her former haunts, "cavernous cheap coffee-plans," as well as the books stores and libraries where she got her "independent education." She also recounted sitting in Whitman Hall "drinking illicit apricot brandy form a cologne bottle...
...Warner, the owner of Home State and formerly a heavy investor in E.S.M. Last week a group of Home State depositors filed a $432 million lawsuit claiming that the bank invested in E.S.M. "not because it was prudent or even safe to do so, but rather because of the illicit financial benefits conferred upon Warner." The suit maintains that Home State will lose at least $144 million from its dealings with E.S.M...