Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this effect." With those drugs has come the psychedelic philosophy, an impassioned belief in the self-revealing, mind-expanding powers of potent weeds and seeds and chemical compounds known to man since prehistory but wholly alien to the rationale of Western society. Unlike other accepted stimuli, from nicotine to liquor, the hallucinogens promise those who take the "trip" a magic-carpet escape from reality in which perceptions are heightened, senses distorted, and the imagination permanently bedazzled with visions of Ideological verity...
...takes more. Some medical authorities and federal officials believe that the drug will eventually be legalized. Hippies, who pass a joint like a peace pipe, quote Genesis I-"Let the earth bring forth grass"-as justification for its use. And, invariably, they argue that marijuana is less deleterious than liquor and does not bring on hangovers. "Juice is a down trip," says a New York hippie. "Grass brings you up-up and away...
...Ahram, Nasser's favorite newspaper, charged that the CIA goaded Israel to attack, and that just before the war the Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese and Iraqi dock workers refused to unload them...
...concealed recording device authorized under New York's nine-year-old eavesdrop law had overheard Ralph Berger discussing his part in a bribery scandal that rocked the state's liquor authority four years ago. The question was whether or not the eavesdrop evidence was admissible against him. When the dissents and assents were sorted out last week, Berger was a free man and New York's law was knocked down...
Proctors and students began to ask the dean for a clarification of the University's policy. There were many freshmen who thought that Harvard just looked the other way, like it does with liquor. They thought that since there had been no stories in the Crimson of students punished for using pot or LSD and no mention in the rule book of drugs, that maybe the University didn't mind...