Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George develops a jealous and possessive affection for Simone, trying to please her aristocratic tastes in a sad, bumbling, endearing way, sipping tea instead of Bloody Marys. In one scene, a waiter approaches him, "Bloody Mary, right?" "No, I'd like a pot of tea," George replies in his wonderful Cockney accent. "Earl Grey or Lapsang Soochong?" "No, tea," he says...
...nurses' main attraction is their reasonable prices. Nurse Mary Baker, who heads a clinic called Chicken Soup Plus in Sacramento, charges only $30 for a pre-employment physical, far less than the $50-to-$75 fees that the city's doctors command. And, yes, she sometimes prescribes a pot of her own chicken soup, which she drops by a patient's home. Jean Sweeney-Dunn, who runs Community Nursing Services for the Elderly in Elmira, N.Y., asks $2 for a urine test and $5 for a blood-sugar analysis, a fraction of what a physician would charge...
Less than half a mile across the water is Ellis Island, a darker, more 20th century place. The same pot of cash is subsidizing the renovation of the historic island and the transformation of its main building into a multimedia immigration museum. "Some people say we should concentrate on Miss Liberty," says Iacocca, chairman of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, "and forget about Ellis Island, because the memories from there weren't too pleasant. They're wrong. We need both. This country was not built on hope alone. It took a lot of pain...
...contrast, the process used to make crack is simple. Ordinary coke is mixed with baking soda and water into a solution that is then heated in a pot. This material, somewhat purer and more concentrated than regular cocaine, is dried and broken into tiny chunks that dealers sell as crack rocks. The little pellets are usually smoked in glass pipes. "Crack is a whole new ball game," says James Hall, executive director of Up Front, a Miami drug-information center. "It's an extremely compulsive drug, much more so than regular cocaine. The rush is so intense and the crash...
...year-old patient at New York City's Phoenix House drug rehabilitation center who got hooked on crack two years ago. The product of a troubled middle-class family, she was already a heavy drinker and pot smoker when she was introduced to coke by her older brother, a young dope pusher. "When you take the first toke on a crack pipe, you get on top of the world," she says...