Word: illicitly
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...sixth of its trade was illicit-pirated or smuggled. It was the New World center of French culture. Its haughty aristocracy were the French and Spanish families, the Creoles. It was a Babylon where English, Spanish, French, Germans, Italians, and Yankees danced, drank and gambled while the Negro population celebrated voodoo rites in Congo Square. In 1812 the first steamboat, the Orleans, chuffed down the river and opened a new era of trade and commerce. In 1897 the city fathers legalized prostitution, confining the houses to a section northwest of the French Quarter, which thereupon became sarcastically known as Storyville...
...readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
...pattern repeated itself in later years. The ways of passive action-the sari-clad women lying on railway tracks, the distilling of illicit salt from the sea, the boycotting of British shops, the strikes, the banner-waving processions-would lead to shots in the streets, to burning and looting. Gandhi always punished himself for his followers' transgressions by imposing a fast on himself...
...some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...
...again, she told her "own story." (Sample quote: "I was in bed alone every night I was away from Jack.") Correspondent James Desmond of the tabloid New York Daily News gravely reported that her shipboard life was not all ecstasy, but "something too unglamorous for the fragile fabric of illicit love." (The headline: TIGHTWAD LOVER HAD ME SWAB DECKS...