Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair split the Anglo vote about evenly). The Anglos were so alienated by the race that only 38% of those eligible to vote bothered to do so, while 58% of the Latin voters and more than 50% of the blacks went to the polls. "We've become a boiling pot, not a melting pot," says Mayor Ferre. "The Anglos can't adapt. They can't take it, so they're moving...
Like many other dealers, Steinberg started as a pot smoker in his home town (Carpentersville, Ill., pop. 23,000), trying to finance his recreational use. The business seemed so easy that it just grew. Throughout their perilous escapades, Stein berg and friends remained calm, peaceful, fun-loving, devil-may-care. They never used force. If an aide was kidnaped, they paid the ransom. If a distributor burned them on a payoff, they simply did not deal with him again. Their mothers, aunts, wives, girlfriends were recruited to rent safe houses in Miami suburbs for storing drugs or to ride along...
...Eating out of one big pot" was the way the Peking leadership once described China 's vast system of collectivized agriculture, in which peasants, grouped together in 52,000 sprawling communes, had to share their earnings more or less equally. In the past three years Peking has taken a great leap sideways from the collective idea. Applying what it calls the "responsibility system, " the government is returning much of the country's farming to individual households. The new system is gradually changing the lives of China's 800 million rural residents. The report of TIME Peking Bureau...
...probe to Halley's comet? No solar polar mission? No Venus probe, no Galileo project for Jupiter, no deep-space network? Will future generations look back to say, "The 20th century? Oh, that was when they smoked pot and built atom bombs." Or will they say, "The 20th century? That's when they opened up the universe...
...Jack has not only acted in bombs, but written, produced, and directed them as well. Just what drugs were involved is a bit hazy, but his violently energetic quest for personal morality, both on-screen and off, has no doubt been aided by some hallucinogens (Time reported he smoked pot every day for 15 years