Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...golf ball "with chemical pockets dotting the outer skin." When the ball impacted the pockets burst, releasing a miasma of ammonium chloride. This simple method of chemical detection would definitely be a boon to the golfer traipsing his way through a snow bank in search of the elusive pill...
...missed opportunities subsequently put Cornell at the controls. Defenseman Peter Shier notched his 19th goal of the year on a pill from the left point that snuck under the cross bar. Nethery and Mark Weiss, who had two goals and three assists on the evening, got the assists...
Developed in the 1950s as an anesthetic, PCP was banned for human use after tests showed erratic side effects, and it is now legal only as a tranquilizer for monkeys and apes. It can be snorted as a powder, injected as a fluid or swallowed as a pill. But usually the drug is dusted or sprayed over parsley, mint leaves or marijuana and smoked. Some dealers doctor low-quality marijuana with it. Others simply sell it to naive youngsters as LSD, THC (the active ingredient in marijuana), mescaline or even cocaine...
...women against the back-drop of the feminist movement of the '60s, presumably illustrating Simone deBeauvoir's famous line, "women are made, not born." But Varda's feminism concerns itself only with those things that have to do specifically with the female body. For her, feminism equals the Pill and easily-had abortions. Varda fails to realize that women are troubled by anything other than unwanted pregnancies, that they must fight deep-seated prejudices to be recognized as intellectual and social equals in what has always been a man's world...
...offensive corner to pick up a loose puck and alertly saw Purdy streaking to the opposite corner. Murray sent the puck around the boards, and Purdy hit defenseman Jack Hughes with a pass at his right point position. Hughes, last season's ECAC Rookie of the Year, slapped a pill past the UVM goaltender. Hughes drilled two goals from his point position in the game...