Word: mu
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...users, the drug has many names-many of them evasive. Marijuana may be called muggles, mooter, Mary Warner, Mary Jane, Indian hay, loco weed, love weed, bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics...
...inside view of Japan at war. As an Argentine commercial attaché, 33-year-old Ramón Muñiz Lavalle was in Hong Kong when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He went to Tokyo just before Bataan fell. From the streets of the Japanese capital, he saw Doolittle's raiders swoop low over the housetops a year ago (see p. 30). Japanese officials received him and confided in him as a representative of a "cooperating" nation. But Lavalle himself was not neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left...
...advisory committee of eight-four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under Secretary Abe Fortas will serve. Best-known Puerto Rican on the committee: the famed leader of the Popular Democratic Party, cavalry-mustached Luis Muñoz Marin...
Officially Franco still remained neutral. He sent his Foreign Minister, Count Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, and twelve military and diplomatic bigwigs for wining, dining and a joint accord on neutrality and anti-Communism with neighboring Portugal.* He welcomed home General Agustin Muñoz Grande, recently decorated (by Hitler) commander of the Falangist Blue Division fighting in Russia. From his train window at the border, the general shouted: "Long live the mothers who begat the most valiant soldiers in the world." At San Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian...
Earnest Rex Tugwell is not noted for his tact. Gradually the more formal Puerto Ricans began to grumble at his blunt, abrupt handling of affairs. Sugar interests griped at his close association with swart, spaniel-eyed Luis Muñoz Marín, liberal President of the Senate (who once warned his followers forcefully: "Distrust all politicians-even me''). Officials' wives complained that Mrs. Tugwell was aloof...