Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision not to mobilize the reserves, McNamara admitted that "to carry on as we have does put strain on the department." He argued, nonetheless, that it was preferable to keep the reserves intact (or as Lyndon Johnson puts it, "to keep some chips in the pot") in case of some other emergency. The armed forces are expanding by 30,000 a month through enlistments and the draft. An added argument against mobilization may well be that the Administration is fearful of losing votes thereby in the November elections...
...GUTS team played a wide-open brawling game. They switched from last week's squopp-squopp tactics -- where both team members try to cover the opposition's pieces with their own winks and shoot for the pot only late in the game -- to squidge-squopp. In this style of play, one man tries to neutralize the opposition by squopping, while his teammate goes for the score...
...other side there were some cautioning words about taking drugs, the main one being that if taken under stress or while still unwilling to surrender to the influence of the drug the result will be a "horror show" of threatening hallucinations. The other reservation about pot was that it should not be over-estimated. "You can't do your math or anything practical while you're high because it kills the Protestant Ethic in people. If people could live by fingerpainting we could legalize pot...
...immediately into a new set of thinking patterns and customs; a new social order with its own stylized mores. These traditions usually grow around a small group of friends who are in the habit of smoking together. The same comments, the same gestures, the same conversations, are repeated within pot cliques and grow into a ritual built around the great god Pot...
Most students are not asking for a Ginsbergian revolution. Although there were a few students who ranted on about how wonderful it felt when you reached the threshold of a high and how, for the exquisite sensation alone, pot should be legalized, most of the sample was more cautious. In general they advanced a defensible argument that society wasn't ready for legalized pot yet, but that in comparison with the evils of liquor and cigarettes, pot was virtually harmless. "While a high sharpens your senses, liquor makes you dull and uncomfortable--especially the morning after." Many of the students...