Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever quite matched the headlong U.S. rush to use the oral contraceptives now universally known as "the pills." An estimated 5,000,000 American women now take them; and, as a special advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said: "Never have so many people taken such potent drugs voluntarily over such a protracted period for an objective other than the control of disease...
David Dubinsky, L.H.D., retired president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. His prophetic fury in a righteous cause is as legendary and as potent as a summer storm, a whirlwind followed by lambent sunshine...
...transporting small quantities is to mix them in water, soak the solution up in a handkerchief and let it dry-to be cut up later into squares, which LSD users chew. LSD is hard to track down because the compound is colorless, tasteless and odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely by amateurs, but potential profits represent a strong temptation for organized crime. Tougher legislation will probably make LSD scarcer and therefore more expensive...
...Hallucinogenic" or "psychedelic" (literally, "mind-manifesting") drugs come in three groups. The mild ones are morning-glory seeds, nutmeg and marijuana. The moderately potent ones are the mescaline of Weir Mitchell's experiment, psilocybin (derived from the Mexican Indians' "sacred mushroom"), bufotenine (a constituent of Amanita muscaria), and dimethyltryptamine (found in cohoba). By itself on the third level is LSD. It has 100 times the potency of psilocybin and 7,000 times that of mescaline, which is itself considerably more powerful than marijuana...
Europe's coal miners, who are as politically potent and as well protected as America's farmers, are in a querulous mood. In past months, miners have staged angry protest marches in Germany's Ruhr and battled against truncheon-swinging police in Belgium (toll: two dead). Behind this unrest is an upheaval in the sources of energy that are at the root of Europe's economic strength. As it has in the U.S., coal is losing its primacy to gas, oil and nuclear energy. The result is fewer jobs for miners but more opportunities for those...