Word: potted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area should be preserved for academic use rather than for the general public." Other observers are less kind. One high-level state source, who was party to the conflict, says a group of "Brattle St. Brahmins who think the rest of the world should defer to them" kept the pot boiling...
...most serious obstacles to successful truce making between the two Communist powers, however, seemed highly contemporary. One week before the Moscow talks, with obvious support from the Soviet Union, Viet Nam lashed out with a series of attacks in Cambodia, where troops loyal to deposed Premier Pol Pot, backed by China, have been carrying on a stubborn insurgency...
Deploying some 180,000 soldiers, Hanoi showed signs it might be preparing a full-scale "dry season" offense aimed at wiping out Pol Pot's force of 30,000 guerrillas once and for all. If so, it was feared that China might take direct action in defense of Pol Pot, and even perhaps launch another "punitive" attack like its massive invasion of Viet Nam last February. A Chinese military operation on that scale would again raise the risk of direct Soviet intervention...
...pair of Oakland P.D. vice-squad officers parked around the corner from the Halvoniks' house and deployed a Bushnell Spacemaster, a telescope with a zoom lens that can magnify up to 45 times beyond the capability of the naked eye. Sure enough, the plants on the balcony were pot. A few hours later, armed with a search warrant, the seeing-eye detectives returned and counted 323 marijuana plants growing around the house. Inside, they found two lids of smokable grass and almost half an ounce of cocaine...
...They think the country and the economy are going to pot," says Jeffrey Gushing, a Massachusetts gold dealer. Coins, including the 1-oz. South African Krugerrand and the new 1-oz. Canadian Maple Leaf, which went on sale in the U.S. this month, are the most popular buys...