Word: smokings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chanting tribal war cries, the federal troops swept toward the city the next day, killing any Ibos that they discovered en route. As the troops seized the airport and moved into parts of the city, great, 1,000-ft. pillars of black smoke angled into the sky from pipelines and oil and gas wells set ablaze by the retreating Ibos. At week's end, Biafran soldiers were still holding out in some sections of Port Harcourt, and the prospect was for long-drawn-out fighting. But the superior federal firepower seemed certain to prevail eventually, and then Port Harcourt...
...seniors are said by students to have brought back some marijuana with them at the beginning of the winter term. The two would smoke it in their dormitory room which was lit by colored lights and often filled with the smoke of incense. Most of the dormitory and the rest of the senior class were on to their secret up to the time when they were discovered. One senior said that "hundreds of people, even the flits" were joining them for a smoke. In February one of the two left his laundry bag on a staircase. His housemaster, finding...
...students aren't happy with the administration. They almost had a quiet student power demonstration last week to get a student representative into faculty meetings. But plans were cancelled at the last minute. Students haven't been allowed to smoke cigarettes since the Surgeon General's Report. They are allowed to smoke pipes...
...student said that he first tried marijuana because someone in his regular illegal cigarette smoking clique introduced it one week. Virtually all who would smoke cigarettes legally still do so anyway. And pipes are sometimes used to cover the smell of drugs. Incense has been banned by the administration because it can be used for that purpose. And there is a move afoot to get rid of pipes for the same reason...
...blacks don't smoke marijuana or take other drugs at Exeter. The commonly-held reason is that coming to prep school was a more unusual alternative than taking drugs. More importantly, they aren't within the social group that takes drugs...