Word: pellet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion dollar techniques to reproduce the incredible pressures and temperatures in the center of the sun, where fusion occurs freely. Scientists have used either powerful magnets to keep the hot hydrogen plasma--at about 200 million degrees Centigrade--from touching anything physical or huge lasers to heat a small pellet of deuterium to similar temperatures...
...says Laura, who also has a pellet gun, two .22s, a .45-cal. muzzle- loading rifle and muzzle-loading pistol, a bow and arrows, a wild pony named Wild Rose and her own row of flowers and vegetables in the garden. "I use it to skin squirrels." She puts the knife back into its sheath as if she were tucking one of her Barbie dolls into bed. "Squirrels are good," she adds, reaching for one of her mother's hot homemade donuts, "but there's not much meat on them...
...later put the pieces back together. So far, though, single-piece capsules can hold only liquid drugs. Reason: the medication cannot pass through the special machinery used to make single-piece capsules unless it is in liquid form. Most over-the-counter medication comes in powder or solid-pellet form...
...desperate addicts chasing an ever more elusive high know it as "rock." On both coasts, and in Chicago, Detroit and other cities throughout the U.S., the drug by either name is an inexpensive yet highly potent, highly addictive form of cocaine that is rapidly becoming a scourge. Pushers sell pellet-size "rocks" in tiny plastic vials for as little as $10. Smoked rather than snorted, a single hit of crack provides an intense, wrenching rush in a matter of seconds. "It goes straight to the head. It's immediate speed," says a former addict. "It feels like...
...mean streets of New York City, where the drug entered the marketplace last year, it is known as "crack." Dealers sell pellet-size "rocks" of the highly purified cocaine in small plastic vials for prices starting at about $10. Crack is smoked rather than snorted, and a single hit provides a short but intense and practically instantaneous rush. The drug of the moment, it has been reported in at least 13 states, and police in New York and California have been busy busting the "base houses," or "rock houses," where the stuff is sold and smoked. Said William Hopkins...