Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palimpsest. In Teheran, after being questioned intensively about dealing in opium, Hadi Hashimi allowed the narcotics squad investigators to kiss his Koran as an apology for bothering him, was hauled off to jail when 375 grams of opium were discovered in a hole in the book's pages...
Virginia-born, Scottish-educated Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830), practicing in the tiny (pop. 1,000) frontier town, had dared what the most eminent surgeons in the capitals of Europe would not have attempted. Patient Crawford, who had been given only opium pills and remained conscious, reciting psalms, during the operation, outlived her surgeon by ten years-until the dawn of the anesthetic era. McDowell's colleagues at first scoffed at what they dismissed as a backwoodsman's tall tale. Not until 1827 did the University of Maryland recognize him. with an honorary degree...
...that your correspondent did not mention the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the hotel. But, then, perhaps the press invasion had displaced the habitues. Among those who stayed at but not in the Constellation were Georges, the French opium addict, and Monsieur the counterfeiter...
Totally without industry, Laos has only two legal exports of any importance: 1) benzoin and 2) stick-lac, an insect product that is used as an ingredient in lacquer and varnish. But the country's main crop is opium (one-third of world production") grown on the mountaintops by Meo tribesmen who also profess to be werewolves. Laos' biggest import is U.S. dollars-for the past five years U.S. aid has run from $43 million to $54 million a year...
Unhappy Mountaineers. These mountaineers-the Black Thai, the primitive Kha, the opium-growing Meo-have long disliked being ruled by the Lao of the south. A few among the wild hill people fight on the side of the Communist Pathet Lao; many more have a passive indifference toward the government...