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Word: potful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apologized and explained again that he doesn't drink. "I can't afford to," he says, "with everything that's wrong with me, I'd be dead in a year." Bob Dylan, Dennis insists, writes "his meaningless songs when he's high. 'Puff the Magic Dragon' is about pot, you know? Lived by the sea--that's cocaine, you know...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Surf's Out for the Beach Boys | 11/30/1965 | See Source »

...with his eye on the long chance. Under a circle of light in a smoke-clogged New Orleans hotel room, The Kid sweats it out with a full house while The Man (Edward G. Robinson) ups the stakes on what may or may not be a straight flush. The pot runs to thousands, but this game means more than money. The Man is Lancey Howard, undisputed king of stud poker for more than 30 years, and he knows that the crusty young challenger across the baize means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Deal | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...White House may be short on pay and long on L.B.J. But for every presidential assistant who quits, a pot of gold is waiting just outside the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Indeed, the White House may be the only U.S. institution whose dropouts almost always make good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Most Happy Dropouts | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...Anne Francis) has all the getaway gadgets -including tear-gas earrings and a garter that converts to a gas mask-but she has not a chance of escaping the banalities of her script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West and Ulysses S. Grant ("The nation is in a pot of trouble, boy") enlist Major James West as a post-Civil War Bondsman. He is outfitted with his own railroad car replete with pool table, cues that unsheath to become sabers, billiard balls that detonate as hand grenades. But such gimmickery is simply cumbersome. Except for President Grant, who needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Overstuffed Tube | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...sharpest reply to Dr. Blaine's earlier assertion of "a fairly casual view toward pot" came from...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: UHS: An All - But - Clean Bill of Health | 9/22/1965 | See Source »

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