Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the gazelle is close to God," the other prompted. Something in Joseph detonated minutely, and then he waved it off with a snort...
...know how he felt. When the invitation to the ball came last summer, I snorted a contemputous snort and tossed it. But when it became obvious that everyone and his accountant was going to be underneath that big yellow tent on Saturday night, I knew I had to go. Despite pulling every string God gave me, I still couldn't buy a pair of tickets until Thursday. A good friend of mine made two dozen photocopies of the ball tickets and handed them out free to whoever wanted them as "a political statement against elitism," but I heard about...
...fire," says Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user two or three blissful joyrides. Coke sniffers so constrict their nasal passages that they can no longer snort the stuff, while heroin users must constantly search for new veins to pop. The only limit on the amount of crack an addict can use is the amount he has. "There is no such thing as saving crack," says Dr. Herbert Kleber of Yale Medical School. "You use what...
...Fifties are rather skimpy, almost as though Wilson were too busy to keep up with himself in his journals. But there are some striking encounters along the way. In Paris he discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went...
...post time at Heinold Downs!" announces Roy Holding, and a crowd of more than 1,000 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield presses in eagerly against the restraining ropes around the track. In the paddock, the racers snort and squeal in anticipation. "Don't blink," warns Holding, "or you may miss the race...