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Word: potted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bigger Cut. The latest proposal for dipping into the culinary pot-reportedly cooked up by a Chicago Mafia triggerman named Tony Spilotro-called for founding a clinic-pharmacy where ailing union members would receive medical treatment and drugs. The Mob would skim off funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Vegas Vanishing Act | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...depressing reaction of other women to their new experience of housewifery. Valerie Kraus, 34, quit her job as an Illinois teacher last fall when she saw her two children "were losing me and the attention and love that only a mother can give. Soon afterward," she recalls, "at a pot-luck dinner at church, we each had to tell about the nicest thing that had happened to us recently. Other women talked about their jobs. When my turn came, I said, 'This is the first time I've stayed home and I thoroughly enjoy it!' People just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Housewife Blues | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...become as boring as vitamin pills--this stuff, however, doesn't fall into that trap. Typically an ARS song begins with a minimum of frills, a few tight riffs and you're rocking down the highway with them, wishing like Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan attorney that your tin-pot radio could turn higher...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Loud, Hot 'Lanta Honky-Tonk | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

Sheldon Lee Glashow is a charming man. Five days a week the tall, pot-bellied, cigar-puffing physics professor shuffles into his third-floor office, plunks himself down behind his desk, strikes a match to a gigantic role of cured tobacco leaves and plies his trade--pondering the fundamental constituents of matter. And the profundity of Glashow's thoughts have made him a founding father of the theory of "charmed particles...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Would You Believe Lemon Leptons And Magic Muons? | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Detroit, pot-smoking Jesse Coulter, 42, was so overcome by the combination of grass and the televised version of Roots that he picked up a sawed-off shotgun and ordered Wife Rita to drive with him 260 miles to Cincinnati. There the two took eight hostages in a home for unwed mothers and held them for twelve hours, demanding to see the son they had given up at the same home 20 years earlier. Coulter finally surrendered after a young detective, pretending to be his long-lost son, persuaded him to end the siege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Season of Savagery and Rage | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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