Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven, or - as one Chicagoan prefers - in a Laundromat dryer set at "Cotton." The cuttings are then "manicured" by forcing them through a screen (No. 12 mesh, a protective screening used in prisons and detention homes, does nicely). Roll, ignite, puff - and off to Cloud...
...Modern Warlord. The squabble is not concerned with the growing or gathering of opium; that job belongs for the most part to such primitive tribesmen as the Meo, Ekaw, Bolong, Wa and Yao, who slit the poppy-seed pods for their resin, boil it into sticky raw opium, and roll it into loaves of one to five pounds. The fight grows out of a jurisdictional dispute between tribute-collecting soldiers and smugglers who deliver the stuff into the hands of the two Chinese syndicates that control the opium export from Laos...
...roll them bones for really big stakes and cash in on her famous name with a brand line of dresses...
Languorous Narrative. The pop-music industry, always alert for new categories, sees in Billie Joe a lot more than that. There is talk of a new division of the already thin-sliced rock-'n'-roll world; the song, says a rock connoisseur, is the world's first example of "folk-rock narrative." It is also the only one; the other songs in the album are straightforward, pleasant folk ballads...
...prevail. "Fifty percent of our delegates are pessimistic," said Brazilian Representative Georges Maciel, "and the rest feel no optimism." The reason was that no nation had a very clear idea of how to eliminate the present surplus or stop the flood of newly harvested coffee beans that continues to roll...