Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subjects us to a similar analysis of his drinking and drug-taking. Nobody cared that Bill Lee smoked pot. One of the funniest things he ever did happened shortly after he was traded to the Montreal Expos. He told a writer that he "used" marijuana. The commissioner's office flipped out and sent a couple of stooges to investigate. He told them one of the biggest lies of all time: Yes, sir. I have used marijuana, but I never said I smoked it. I just put a little on my buckwheat pancakes every morning. They bought it. Even Abbie Hoffman...
...process, Israel's melting pot has, on occasion, become a cauldron of hostilities. The Ashkenazim have lampooned what they see as the less disciplined and sophisticated Sephardim, and the Sephardim, in turn, have scorned the standoffish Ashkenazim. In a few particularly ugly instances, the Sephardim have been dubbed "Khomeinis"; they have responded by calling their antagonists "Aske-nazis." Even Prime Ministers, including European-born David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, have spoken darkly of the dangers of "mob rule" and sweepingly written off "the primitive Arab mentality" of the Sephardim...
...ensuing championship game. Tate hung on to win her first Beanpot MVP award and preserved the Crimson's first 'Pot title in a 2-1 win over Boston University...
Last year, the Russian and Soviet Studies concentrator stopped 10 Northeastern shots in the final period of the Beanpot championship game to give the Crimson a 2-1 upset triumph, a second straight 'Pot and herself a second straight MVP award...
...three successive drawings that failed to produce a big winner, New York's lottery jackpot had ballooned to a record $22.1 million, the highest ever in North America. (The world's largest: Spain's El Gordo, "the Fat One," which in 1983 amassed a $73 million pot.) In the final days before the drawing, tickets for the outsize prize were selling at the frenzied rate of a million an hour...