Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were thousands of such homes, and hundreds of such young men, and most Americans had seen some. The nation, in the exhilaration of its war boom and its joy in victories, had not yet forgotten the warning that 1943 would be the year of crisis and sacrifice...
DOUGLAS E. JOY, U.S.N.R...
...users, the drug has many names-many of them evasive. Marijuana may be called muggles, mooter, Mary Warner, Mary Jane, Indian hay, loco weed, love weed, bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics...
...Pride & joy of Henry Wallace is the Board of Economic Warfare. Last week he found it in mortal danger from Jesse Jones, the Administration's Old Man of the Sea. Like a mother bear with a cub in trouble, Henry Wallace attacked in full fury...
RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD-Joy Bayless - Vanderbilt University Press...