Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McClarnon, last year's freshman wrestling captain, was leading Jones 7-0 as the third period began. Jones, who had never wrestled at Harvard, gained four points on pure guts moves and pinned his opponent with 28 seconds left in the match...
...vessel or its skipper. An initial search revealed nothing. Then, a full day later, the agents suddenly noted that the ship's concrete ballast seemed to be oddly positioned. They attacked the concrete with pickaxes. In the center they discovered a cache that contained 40 plastic bags of pure heroin-presumably processed in the South of France and destined for the U.S. French officials announced that the narcotics haul was the largest in history: 937 Ibs. of pure heroin worth between $180 million and $400 million on the streets of New York City, depending on the extent to which...
...other drug developments: in Geneva the district attorney issued an arrest warrant for Huchang Davallou, a member of the imperial entourage of the Shah of Iran, and charged him with supplying 35 gm. of pure opium to an Iranian resident of Geneva. Police discovered that Davallou was protected by diplomatic immunity. The Shah angrily broke off a skiing holiday in St. Moritz and, with Davallou in hand, quickly schussed back to Teheran. Swiss papers noted sarcastically that the Shah's regime had executed scores of Iranians for the same offense: trafficking in drugs...
...Madness Revolution-the Second Coming of Nietzsche-was inevitable, did it really have to be so predictable? Alas, it is original only in its extremism. Men have always longed for pure freedom, always dreamed of re-birth-on-the-cheap; and who lives out his life without at least one trip to the brink? "Man always travels along precipices," Ortega y Gasset noted. "His truest obligation is to keep his balance." What is new and perverse in the '70s man, bankrupt in common convictions and up to here with cultivating his precious self, is the hope of finding salvation...
...QUOTES a Harvard student recounting an LSD trip during which he was in the Adams House swimming pool: "as I swam, the lights sparkled on the water around my hands, and suddenly I was swimming through a sea of rubies and diamonds and emeralds...It was just experience, man! Pure, unadulterated experience!" The author finds it hardly surprising that a high school kid with access to acid would rather drop than "watch TV, go for a ride with his friends, study math, (or) take a date to the hamburger stand...