Word: pusher
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...brought in from Tangier aboard his chartered yacht. He bootlegged gold coins into Algeria by stuffing them into the innards of frozen chickens, cleaned out the numbered Geneva bank account of a wealthy Casablanca doctor by posing convincingly as his brother. Posing on another occasion as a heroin pusher, he conned two U.S. Narcotics Bureau agents into laying a trap for him, and slipped the noose with $12,000 in exchange for several bags of what proved to be merely powdered sugar...
...activities. The trip, Yablonsky contends, gave him "invaluable perspective" on the drug. Throughout his research, Yablonsky says, he found the possibility of arrest or being forced to reveal sources a "constant source of concern, anxiety and fear." It caused him to turn down an offer to meet "the biggest pusher in California." While such an interview might have aided his sociological insights, he figured that the need to keep the man's identity secret presented an insuperable scholarly dilemma. In the past, he has been bothered by revelations of unpunished crimes turned up in group-therapy work among prison...
...high speeds and ease the strain on the rotor blades overhead. Vertical takeoffs and landings, plus its hovering capability, are aided by a tail-mounted stabilizing rotor. Increasing its acceleration capacity, which carries the Cheyenne from zero-hover to 230 m.p.h. in 38 seconds, is a rear-mounted pusher propeller. Moreover, the plane can decelerate from this speed to zero-hover in 17 seconds...
Other active programs of a more preventive nature include a youth project, with picnics and social meetings, and a kind of Addicts Anonymous, run by ex-Pusher and Addict "Sonny" Long, which sponsors meetings twice a week for self-help discussion...
...some people the wrong way. Some actors dislike working with her, and one called her "a golden pain in the behind." They abhor her trademark mannerisms, the way she stutters and flutters her hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler. Her vocal rhythm is a hesitation tango; her midsentence gasps leave audiences gasping...