Word: reefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live in Harlem. "I was just born black, poor and uneducated, and you only need three strikes all over the world to be out, and I have nothing to live for but this shot of dope," says one addict. But the habit is costly: $1 for a marijuana "reefer," $3 for a "bag" (a single grain of heroin), $5 for a "deck" (three grains). A heavy user may need up to $75 a day, and that often means mugging people and sometimes killing them for the wherewithal...
...precarious paradise-beleaguered from without by The City, source of the commuter's money, and by proletarian Parthenia down by the railroad tracks, from which emerge teen-age toughs, rapacious plumbers and reefer-smoking baby sitters. It may be attacked from within by moral failure. Felicity is threatened by the second wife, the third mortgage, the fourth child, or the fifth martini. In Proxmire Manor, as in Eden itself, the penalty for sin is banishment-but only to the next town. The angel at the gates may be a suburban bank manager or may appear, as in The Wapshot...
...owner protection against being lumped with the common crowd at her heels. Get the "understated mink." cries Harper's Bazaar. For if simply everyone has a plain old mink coat, hardly anyone has a mink-lined raincoat. Or a mink coat modeled after an officer's reefer ($7,800, Bonwit Teller). Or a pure-white double-breasted mink blouse ($2,600, Bonwit Teller). Or a dark ranch mink suit ($2,000, Fredrica Furs). Or a loose-belted polo coat ($4,950, Hattie Carnegie...
Heads in the Reefer. Dozens of dogs have been proved rabid, and in the county health department's refrigerator at El Centro there is a big backlog of heads from destroyed animals. Microbiologist Ella Capers Weston has not had time to check them all, has sent an overflow to state laboratories in Berkeley. At least 15 people have been bitten by dogs now known to have been rabid; scores of others have had to take the vaccine injections before the biters' rabidity could be established. Microbiologist Weston has taken them...