Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher-not to mention the fact that it is illegal to manufacture the drug without a federal license. Many hippies -particularly the weekend variety-have taken to using the shorter-lived and still legal DMT (dimethyltryptamine), which produces only a 45-minute trip, or else the related DET (diethyltrypta-mine), an equally short haul. Others are turning on to the milder pre-LSD hallucinogens: cactus-derived mescaline, the American Indian's peyote (it takes many bitter peyote cactus buds to achieve a high; usually, nausea comes first to the uninitiated), or psilocybin, which produces a giggly, warm high...
...Take the A Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were mine," deadpanned the maestro...
...occasions can be read in the titles: A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment; In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband His Absence; Before the Birth of One of Her Children. To her husband there are outpourings of diffident ardor: "My head, my heart, mine eyes, nay, more." His business trips rankled...
L.B.J. himself grinned and waved back to the welcoming townsfolk, the tension draining from his face as the crowds' enthusiasm washed over him. But he said nothing on arrival. He had not come to New Jersey's Gloucester County last week to mine votes but to fulfill his familiar pledge to "seek peace, any time, any place...
...Egyptian commander to Israeli forces. When war broke out again, he headed for the front on an assignment for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Approaching Gaza in a private car, he found the road blocked by a pile of stones. He got out, pushed a rock aside. A mine exploded, and he was killed instantly...