Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satirical Grin and Bear ft, syndicated at its peak in more than 300 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Santa Rosa, Calif. His distinctive one-panel series was neither comic strip nor editorial cartoon, though his jokes grew more topical. One regular character, the bombastic Senator Snort, was a favorite of President Harry Truman, who owned twelve original Lichty cartoons...
...three-piece suits," gave cocaine to employees who would work 18-hour shifts. Cocaine, in fact, is dangerously well suited to sales jobs. "You can do a lot of selling, a lot of talking when you're on cocaine," says Dana, 28, a South Florida man who would snort as much as seven grams (about a quarter of an ounce) a day while selling ? and to finance his habit, stealing ? building materials. "I didn't really like the job," he says. "Coke accounted for a lot of my motivation." Margaret guesses that at least a third...
...merchant vessels, and the locals have grown so blasé that only word of a Royal Navy submarine stirs much interest. The busiest part of town is the jetty, where supplies are taken off the ships and soldiers come and go all day. Trucks hauling machinery and building supplies snort up the hills toward Stanley Airport, which is crowded with Phantom and Harrier jets and ringed by gleaming Rapier antiaircraft missiles...
...hands several times, with the drug "cut" or adulterated each time until it is about 20% pure. On a Los Angeles street corner, a gram of coke sells for about $120. One gram can then be divvied up into about ten "lines" for sniffing. An infrequent user who might snort just a couple of lines at a party, compared to 20 lines a day for a heavy user, can buy by the quarter ($30) or half ($60) gram...
...paddles in and out riding blue skateboards. When the gondoliers leave Venice to become kings of Barataria, they puff themselves up a bit with hats and golf-clubs. Most amusing of all, when Don Alhambra, the normally buffoonish grand inquisitor, finds himself in moments of stress, he takes a snort from a small black snuff box he carries; the box occasionally tips over when someone bumps into the Don, and the powder that spills out is unmistakeably white...