Word: illicitness
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...alcohol were taught to school children. Health laws were used to crack down on the worst pulquerias. (Fortnight ago, 13 brigades of 20 women each made the rounds of Mexico City's worst dives, got police to jail 380 proprietors for violations, dump 140,000 gallons of illicit pulque down the sewers.) But the best chance of smashing the pulque trade seems to be to divert it to beer. Mexican beer is among the world's best. And since 1932, the beer industry has persuaded the tax-conscious Government to reduce taxes on beer so that...
Most readers will find much of the strictly scientific exposition difficult where not unintelligible, some of the flights into pure metaphysical speculation farfetched, perfervid. But there are passages of rare poetic storytelling quality, as in the chapter on "The Amistad Mutiny," which recreates a remarkable bit of illicit slave-trade history, in which Gibbs's father, along with the aged but still eloquent John Quincy Adams, played a leading role...
...Crow law was refined last week in Natal, South Africa. Sentence of four months' imprisonment for a native woman was upheld by the Natal Supreme Court; but the court suspended sentence of her partner, an R.A.F. man. Their offense: illicit sexual intercourse. In South Africa, Natal is one of the provinces where intercourse between blacks and whites is taboo. The law has previously provided equal punishment for both...
...author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play's title seems less like a symbol of hope than the name of a newspaper. Too often, moreover, the war news is shunted off the front page in favor of flashier items. The hero (Gregory Peck), a brilliant young doctor thwarted...
...probably the best thing that ever happened to U.S. drug addicts. By shutting off the sources, chiefly Asiatic, of smuggled dope (morphine, heroin, opium and derivatives), the war in Asia has for several years been cutting into the illicit drug traffic at a rate U.S. preventive agencies never hoped-to achieve. The result, says the annual report of the U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, is that drug addiction has reached an all-time low because many drug addicts (there are an estimated 45,000 in the U.S.) have been forced to take cures...