Word: lamping
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...opium den was in a small bamboo shack. The interior was dark except for one lamp used for lighting the opium. Sleeping bodies lay on wooden benches along the walls. I lay down on one of the empty benches and an attendant handed me one end of a long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium. pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled...
...challenge to visiting teams. When the captains meet at home plate, Pete Bernhard and Varney will listen to Brandies co-captain Bob O'Brien explain. "Now for the left field out-of-bounds, picture an imaginary line from here to that red shrub, then an imaginary line to that lamp post, then...
...activist as Miss Luscomb has to say no once in a while though. Soon she plans to withdraw temporarily from the commune and retire, as she does each summer, to the solitude of her one-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods. There she can light her kerosene lamp, read the Guardian and her books about Karl Marx, and look across her vegetable garden to nearby Mount Chocorua-a 3,475-ft. peak she scaled four years...
...real world intruded on our sanctuary briefly last week, when Cambridge police arrested a junior who had been so flamboyant as to display a marijuana plant in his window, highlighted by a heat lamp. For the rest of us the danger still seems minimal. But there is nothing to prevent the Cambridge police from staging a huge raid some night, as rumors have suggested every spring for three years...
...reporter) stand in the dreary brown and green, linoleum-tiled hall, the flickering fluorescent lamp reflecting off his short dry-look, blonde hair and his noncommittal gray eyes. And of course, the blue pin-stripe shirt, the navy club tie, the not-quite pointy black shoes...