Word: jongg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chemists refine the caky black powder into two grades of heroin: No. 3, the 40%-50% pure "brown sugar" favored for smoking, and fluffy white No. 4, 90% pure "stuff" for needle addicts. The dope is ferried to Europe by air, ingeniously cached in all sorts of objects-mah-jongg tiles, false-bottom golf bags, hollowed-out melons...
...zeal displayed were directed only at the ball, the game would be played better, and the current madness might be dismissed as an eccentric fad?and boon to retailers?in a class, say, with the Hula-Hoop or Saturday-night mah-jongg. But this is the age of the ME shirt, of instant psychological replay, of backyard Zen and Women's Liberation. With characteristically passionate optimism, American men and women pursue on the tennis court such things as health and ego reinforcement, true love and sexual aggression, social status and a special vision of the good life. "Let's face...
...sour. Tonight said "Enough." Rickles replaced him with Vic Damone. His record contract, after studio and musician costs were paid, netted him $180 and produced one single that tested well in Omaha but died in Atlanta-after which Epic dropped him too. Even in the Catskills, audiences played mah-jongg while he sang them love ballads, and they clacked their tiles on the table to show their bored approval. He quit, he says, "in disgust and revulsion...
...entrenched bureaucracy, it is not surprising that he became a victim of the purges spawned by the Cultural Revolution. Red Guard pamphlets mercilessly denigrated him as a dissolute, high-living potentate who used his high office to indulge his gluttonous tastes and his bourgeois devotion to bridge and mah-jongg; it was said that he frequently commanded special planes and railway cars to bring his card-playing cronies along on jaunts round the country. At one point he was driven through the streets in a truck with a dunce cap pulled over his ears, jeered at by a screeching, vengeful...
...processed, this crudely refined "sugar" is smuggled into Amsterdam in small amounts (usually no more than 2 lbs.) by Chinese "mules" (underworld slang for narcotics couriers). Often they are illegal residents of Amsterdam, who have been blackmailed into carrying drugs after they have run up heavy debts playing mah-jongg in the "Chinese Only" gambling dens of the city's Rosse Buurt (red-light district). Once the heroin arrives, it may be sold on the streets of Amsterdam for between $40 and $60 a gram. Much of it, however, is shipped to markets all over Europe, including...