Word: popper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home and into a world of casual employment and even more casual friendships. For a while, she shared a house on a lake with two young men; somewhere along the line, she began experimenting with drugs. Several friends describe her as an occasional marijuana user and frequent pill-popper, who took "uppers" and "downers" to suit her moods...
Broadway Joe does use the Hamilton-Beach popcorn popper, the La-Z-Boy reclining chair, the Arrow shirts and other items that he conspicuously consumes on television...
...Senate Committee's concern with the moral implications of U.S. aid to Chile was prefaced by a State Department controversy two weeks ago in which Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 rebuked the U.S. ambassador to Chile, David H. Popper, for discussing "unrelated issues such as human rights and military aid in high level diplomatic talks...
...moral perspective of U.S. foreign aid to Chile is not unique. It is reflected in U.S. support of dictatorial regimes the world over, from Brazil to South Vietnam. However, the concern for human rights shown by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ambassador Popper is unique. As such it should be supported and echoed by Americans of all political persuasions who feel that torture and political imprisonment are wrong. It is time the U.S. stopped supporting regimes that must torture and murder to sustain themselves. Chile is a good place to start. The Congress should reject last week's vote...
...prefer more personal "handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...