Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept zipping by me while I missed every wave. In Yosemite National Park, my rented pickup camper was surrounded by bears as soon as I arrived, which is why I didn't get more interviews. The next morning I picked up two hippies with a dog named Kilo...
...Francisco, Kilo rode in the camper section and ate most of my clothes. There, I walked into the middle of a small riot. Then I had my car towed away for a slightly expired parking meter, and got ticketed for failing to see a sign hidden behind a truck. Back in Los Angeles, a confirmed Californian, I made arrangements for my burial at Forest Lawn...
Similar U.S. attempts in the past have proved frustrating, largely because drug smuggling is a high-profit, low-risk trade. The new treasure of the Sierra Madre is a traditional sideline crop for thousands of small Mexican farmers. They get up to 40 times as much for a kilo of the prized "Acapulco Gold" as they do for a kilo of corn. In Guerrero state, eager peasants using fertilizer and irrigation can harvest four crops a year. In Tijuana, enterprising merchants package marijuana in 1.8-kilo bricks -gift-wrapped at Christmas time-that cost $35 and contain enough...
Just before I left school that spring, two cats got a kilo of grass in the mail. They sold lids [packages containing roughly one ounce] and I bought two. I put them in my suitcase and the first night home, I smoked and left the bag under the bed instead of hiding it. One of my brothers found it and brought it to my parents. They were really horrified and they thought I was a real drug addict. They threw all of it down the toilet. They are really paranoid about drugs. They suspect me of being stoned when...
...before, that the observers had become "defenseless targets in a shooting gallery." The observer corps is composed mainly of army officers from seven countries. The men live nine days at a stretch in concrete-reinforced bunkers, marked by a U.N. flag and bearing multilingual code names like Charlie, Delta, Kilo, Lima and Mike on the Egyptian side. On the Israeli side, the posts are named for colors. Neither combatant is supposed to locate weapons within 43 yards of the posts, but that rule is largely ignored by both sides. U Thant complained last May that the Egyptians had wheeled artillery...