Word: illicitness
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...bombs were returning London to nature: "The sun, now too low to enter [the square] normally, was able to enter brilliantly at a point where three of the houses had been bombed away; two or three of the may trees, dark with summer, caught on their tops the illicit gold...
...midst of the Watergate scandal, he must have known he'd hit upon a great idea. Every day brought fresh evidence into the homes of once-trusting Americans that the President--and those who helped out around the White House--were just like you and me, only worse. Scandals, illicit relationships, incompetence, cheating, profanity--this was the stuff of the modern Commander in Chief...
...Poultrymen have developed vaccines against the more common forms of Newcastle, which was first recognized at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1926. Since then a more virulent strain has emerged. It was carried, Government officials suspect, by the rare tropical birds that are smuggled into the U.S., often by illicit drug dealers, and sold to eager buyers at fancy prices: up to $1,300 for a Moluccan cockatoo, or $8,000 for a hyacinthine macaw...
...influx of white heroin is perverse testimony to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's success in persuading Turkey and Mexico to crack down on their illicit poppy growers. Succeed it has, and so the drug suppliers have turned to the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where government control is too weak to keep the poppy fields from blooming. U.S. narcotics officials estimate that the Golden Crescent is producing about 1,600 tons of opium a year, nine times the output of the rest of the world. Says DEA Chief Peter Bensinger: "It dwarfs anything we have known...
Thirty years ago, a U.S. Senator rose in the chamber to denounce the "illicit affair" between a "popular but pregnant Hollywood movie queen" and a "love pirate." The pirate was the brilliant Italian director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan). The gravid queen was, of course, Ingrid Bergman, who had arrived in Hollywood from Sweden in 1939, a hefty 5 ft. 8 in. of raw material crying out for diet, plucked eyebrows and capped teeth...