Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes it is a biweekly, and sometimes it is just, well, tardy. It is always popular, however, and whether the press run is 4,600, as it was for the first issue last June 10, or 20,000, as it was for the most recent issue, there are precious few copies, if any, left over at the office, a casebook study in clutter, standing between a liquor store and a massage parlor...
...stuff, resembling rock-candy granules, has a melting point half that of plain cocaine. It is customarily smoked in a small glass water pipe, often filled with rum instead of water. The bowl is usually fitted with several thicknesses of fine steel mesh so that the precious drips of melting coke are fully burned. A butane torch may be used, although a lighter or plain matches will do, to apply steady heat on the pipe's bowl and vaporize the free-base. (Accidents, not surprisingly, are common. Comedian Richard Pryor nearly died in 1980 in a mishap...
...internationally known author and editor of two out standing anthologies on psychoactive substances--The Marijuana Papers and LSD The Consciousness-Expanding DrugAs your reporter should have witnessed, he is a vigorous and outspoken defender of personal responsibility and freedom from tyranny, as well as of that precious freedom of the press which you have exploited with your sloppy reportage...
...does complain, however, that this continuation of a summer research project takes precious time away from her own research, which is on Kikuyu, a language spoken by the natives of central Kenya. Involvement with faraway places is not something altogether new to Bergvall...
...Caribbean neighbors try to save a precious...