Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse, dope, junk, stuff?it is infamous as the hardest of drugs, the notorious nepenthe of the most hopeless narcotics addicts, the toughest of monkeys for anyone to get off his back. On heroin, the user usually progresses from snorting (inhaling the bitter powder like some deadly snuff) to skin popping (injecting the liquefied drug just beneath the skin) to mainlining (sticking the stuff directly into the bloodstream...
Kagan pointed out that long-term co-residential living at the University will become a financial problem because "the Quad will have to be architecturally brought up to snuff." He cited the lack of suites and common rooms in the Radeliffe dorms and said, "It's just not fair to send Harvard men up there...