Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest is me. What changed the most was my own natural ability." Either way, what happened next was a surprise. "If anyone had told me a year ago that Cassius would develop into an international figure," says Tobaccoman Cutchins. "I would have said he was smoking marijuana...
...army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last week the harried border guards had a new chore: to prevent the smuggling of hops into Southern Rhodesia. At Beitbridge, on the Limpopo River, a customs officer dutifully searched the luggage of a vacationer returning from South Africa, then...
...skillful satires of Jewish life in the U.S., about which the principal reservation of critics was that it would be hard for the author ever to write anything as good. Roth accepted the award with a witty speech about the nonsensical questions writers are asked (Should the writer smoke marijuana or shouldn't he? Is Yaddo* bad for you? Should he have a telephone?). The tone of the speech was not that of a young tiger intent on astonishing his elders but of an accepted member of the literary world whose high position is beyond the need of proof...
...possible, the honorary beat will reply, but have you dug William Burroughs? (The honorary beat is gainfully employed, usually in some branch of the communications industry, but makes up for this solecism by thinking that Norman Mailer improves with age and by having, once, smoked a small quantity of marijuana.) The Burroughs gambit was, until recently, almost unanswerable, because it was almost impossible to track this author down, physically or in print. He was the greyest of grey eminences, a wraith who flickered into occasional visibility in Mexico, Paris or Tangier. The few shreds of information about him have been...
...last years of his life his potency declined, and he had unsuccessful recourse to rejuvenation treatments by a Swiss doctor. His luckless harem consoled itself with sorties into lesbianism and erotic gadgets sent from Japan. Like many Yemenites, Ahmad chewed qat, a narcotic shrub similar to marijuana, and switched to morphine in 1953-heroically breaking the habit six years later...