Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narcotics. "It's so hot, it's killing people." He was referring to the growing tendency of heroin addicts to use "black tar," a smelly, dark- colored, often sticky version of the drug that is cheap, at about 20 cents per mg, and extremely potent: often 60% or 70% pure heroin. Conventional heroin, on the other hand, sells on the street at about $2.32 per mg and is rarely more than 6% pure. The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration has prepared a report citing the Mexican states of Sonora, Durango, Sinaloa and Guerrero as the main source of the new drug...
...unusual gesture, the U.S. Army, conceding that some of the contaminants seeped from its Rocky Mountain Arsenal, agreed to put up $1 million for a tempo- rary purification system. Assistance also came from the Coors Co. of Golden, which gave away 2,200 cases of its famed Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water to thirsty residents...
State Rep. Thomas Gallagher, a candidate for U.S. Congress, spoke against a "brain drain" caused by diversion of the university's intellecutual resources away from areas like medicine and pure scientific research and into weapons development...
...next morning on the flight line, these guardian angels suck in liters of pure oxygen, trying desperately to burn the alcohol out of their system before take-off time. Sure, you might die, but you're living life the way it's got to be lived...
AMONG THE INTERESTING disease tables, the perennial favorites, the Tourette's Table and the Incontinent Table, will be matched only by the stilted, jerky rapport of the Narcolepsy Table for pure comic potential. Most fascinating of all will be the fiery spectacle of the Spontaneous Combustion Table. And for those interested in a more somber dining experience, over in the darkest corner of the dining hall, all by itself, and covered with a lumpy burlap sack, will be the Elephant Table...