Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cocaine is no longer just a curious upper-class kink. During the past two years or so, the number of Americans who have used the drug climbed from 15 million to 20 million and is rising still: every day some 5,000 neophytes sniff a line of coke for the first time. They cannot be written off as crazy kids: Government studies find that those in their late 20s and 30s constitute the fastest-growing proportion of users and, as of 1982, a majority of people who had tried cocaine were over 26. Nor does it seem that cocaine...
...three-mile run, and his sex life sizzled. "I could be the macho man I always dreamed about." Soon he was spending $1,000 a week, snorting two grams a day with only minutes between "toots." "Even when you drive, you can pour a little sniff on your hand," he says. After a year of cocaine use, Trop discovered freebasing, and the social highs turned insidiously antisocial. "In the beginning, I felt I was communicating with God," he says with a wry smile...
Using special sensors that can "sniff" the chemical signature of a gas, technicians traced the leak to a ¾-in.-long crack in the hot-gas manifold, where hydrogen and oxygen are gathered under high pressure (4,400 Ibs. per sq. in.) before combustion. Undiscovered, the leak might have caused an explosion. This week technicians hope to install a new engine, trucked from the National Space Technology Laboratories in Bay St. Louis, Miss...
...early summer they had quizzed some 200 people. Then, finally, a break: a handwriting expert matched the printing in the book's message to that of one of the suspects. The police subpoenaed a sock belonging to the suspect and let a trained German shepherd sniff it; the dog was then set loose in a room containing the remains of the real bomb and four replicas. The animal headed straight for the genuine one, and the sock owner's scent. Last week, 91 days after Mother's Day, police arrested their suspect outside his Brooklyn apartment...
About 20 million copies of Roget's Thesaurus have been sold. Half a dozen American publishers put out their own versions, and most of them sniff at the idea of any major updating or expurgating. St. Martin's, the New York publisher that has issued the most recent authorized Longman edition, will decide this summer whether to take on the revised version. "There has been a marked change in the way people look at thesauruses," says St. Martin's President Tom McCormack. "Originally they were illustrative; they just listed synonyms. Now they are normative, because people...