Word: opiumeators
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...leaf in a gallon of any good, mild barley water. But when U.S. prohibitionists heard that the Army was issuing it to the front-line soldiers in Korea at the rate of a can a day, they reacted almost as if G.I.s were being taught the opium habit.* As a result, the Department of Defense nervously directed General MacArthur to cut off the free beer issue immediately...
...used by drug addicts to a great extent during the World War II scarcity of narcotics ... [a nemmie] helped them to smooth out the rough edges when the yen (from yen-shee, the scrapings of the inside of an opium pipe) for a "fix" or shot became strong. By "goofing off or going on the nod they entered a state ranging from mild intoxication to complete unconsciousness...
Besides drug addicts, there are the usual thrill-seekers who take goof balls instead of marijuana, quite often ending up as confirmed addicts of the opium (hop, brown stuff) derivatives, such as morphine (M), heroin (H, horse, white stuff), or the coca-leaf extract, cocaine (C, Charlie, snow), which combined with heroin is injected as a "speed-ball...
...been viewing operations in color TV, would be the likeliest customers. CBS and Rand hope also to sell the system for relaying corporate meetings to stockholders, and for classroom use. As for the eventual mass consumer market, CBS Vice President Adrian Murphy quipped: "You have to smoke a little opium before you really can see its potential...
...three leading rice exporters. Its surplus went to rice-short China, a fact of great significance these days in Communist China's support of Communist Ho Chi Minh. All the raw rubber France needed came from Indo-China. There were other lucrative items: coal, wolfram, pepper, opium (which, to French shame, was sold to the natives through a state monopoly) and many jobs for a white bureaucracy. French politicians called the colony "our marvelous balcony on the Pacific...