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Word: reefer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could the novices estimate the strength of their reefers. They guessed right eight times out of nine on the dummy cigarette, and six times on the mild reefer, but eight out of nine guessed "mild" when they were really getting a puff with a big clout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Effects of Marijuana | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Former Ranger Warlord George ("Mad Dog") Rose testified that Fry let the gang use the church basement as headquarters and then warned them about police raids. He said that Fry had even relayed a murder assignment to Rose. Mrs. Annabelle Martin, mother of eight Rangers, said that Fry allowed reefer parties and armed thugs in his church. Asked to repeat this to his face, she turned to Fry and said: "He can sit in my lap and I'll tell him the same. What do they teach those kids in that church? How to murder, how to sell dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Gang War | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...sets Security on the coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors as 1) the husband of a convicted shoplifter and father of a reefer-drag ging beatnik son, 2) a collector of fancy ceramics specializing in Victorian toilet bowls, and 3) a queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Out of the Cold War | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...G.I.s), despite over 200,000 choice steaks and mountains of fresh eggs and vegetables waiting in Saigon's cold-storage facilities. Reason: field units have inadequate refrigerated space of their own-a must in Viet Nam's hot and humid climate. Even Saigon's "reefer" (refrigerator) capacity is grossly short: a single cargo ship can carry far more than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Giant Bottleneck | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...revolting quintet of teen-age boys and girls who call themselves "the Filthy Five," and hang out in a surrealistically appointed turret room of a quaint Manhattan apartment building. These kids are not remotely real, but they have most of the commercially fashionable maladjustments from homosexuality to reefer-dragging, though Playwright Mary Drayton permits one youngster to be merely obese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Filthy Five at Play | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

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