Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their packets are comparatively small. Stacked up against them, the size of alps, are the letters that ought not to have been written. Oscar Wilde's salacious letter to "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas), for instance, with its reference to "red rose-leaf lips," which was read aloud in court where Wilde's homosexuality was at issue. "Suppose," asked the opposing lawyer, "a man who was not an artist had written this letter, would you say it was a proper letter?" Wilde answered: "A man who is not an artist could not have written that letter." Which was true...
...bridge of Dauntless, Captain Murtagh orders the 41st marijuana leaf painted on the mast. "There is at least one thing we prove," he says, sipping from his ever present cup of black coffee. "They don't all get through...
...drugs sold in the U.S., derives from the coca plant which grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. For centuries, highland Indians have chewed leaves of the coca plant as a mild stimulant, to stave off hunger and drowsiness. Although this use continues, Bolivia now produces four times more coca leaf than can be consumed locally...
...farther and farther into the country and still hadn't reached our destination after 40 minutes. I couldn't imagine I'd be doing the reverse of this on foot. Once in Hopkinton, we were engulfed by a sea of runners--thousands of them, many of them wearing plastic leaf bags to keep warm in the bitter wind. A visitor from outer space would have felt right at home...
...relationship." The pamphlet features a series of questions. For example, "Are cigarettes with low 'tar' and nicotine 'safer' for smokers?" The answer begins, "Cigarettes have never been proven to be unsafe," and "What about the alleged 'right' to breathe smoke-free air?" As this Tom Paine of flue-cured leaf points out, "the issue really involve[s] personal freedom...