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Word: spoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often extremely cunning in avoiding detection. The drug usually comes in little glassine bags. It is a fine white, gray or brown powder, very bitter to the taste. The tools needed for an injection usually consist of a hypodermic syringe, often made from an eyedropper and a needle, a spoon or bottle cap (to dissolve the heroin), and cotton balls (to strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Symptoms of Youthful Addicition | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...Neurotics Anonymous members are expected to refer their problems to a greater power, preferably but not necessarily God. To an avowed atheist, one of Grover's lieutenants proposed in all seriousness that an ordinary spoon could serve as a divine surrogate. Grover himself has even suggested that nonbelievers acknowledge the law of gravity as a higher power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now It's Neurotics Anonymous | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...small white paper-thin wafer-is now supposed to be more breadlike, so that it can be broken and shared by priests and people in a more vivid re-enactment of the Last Supper. The wine may be drunk directly from the chalice, sipped from a spoon, taken by "induction" (dipping the bread in wine), or even sipped through silver straws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Mass: More Variety for Catholics | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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