Word: stash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forest clearing near Wamba in equatorial Zaire, a group of bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees, approaches a juicy stash of sugarcane laid out by Japanese researchers. As the animals draw near the sweets, they begin an astonishing series of sexual interactions. Some females embrace, rubbing their genitals against each other; males rub rumps, and sometimes briefly enter into what looks like mating. There is plenty of heterosexual sex too, as well as adult- infant encounters and enough mixing and matching to offend every puritanical sensibility. Scientists have observed similar orgies when bonobos converge on fig trees ripe with the sticky fruit...
...successful for its own good. So it was in the case of about 100 people -- including 82 pharmacists and a doctor -- arrested last week in 50 cities. Two of the conspirators had complained, in a phone call that was wiretapped, that they were running out of places to stash all the illicit cash they were taking in. With such evidence in hand, an army of more than 1,100 FBI agents and other federal law-enforcement officials ended the largest health-care fraud investigation to date. Under the complex scheme, medical professionals and their accomplices stole tens of millions...
...inhibits suspects from getting violent, some officers contend. TV cameras can also help prosecutors later on. David Magnusson, a former street cop for Greater Miami's Metro-Dade police who now works in the department's press office, recalls a man arrested for dope possession who stuffed his stash in his mouth and swallowed it. Knowing his actions had been taped by a Cops crew, however, he pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence...
...Cabot room lugging a book bag which weighs about 30 pounds--it contains books and notebooks for that day's classes, the materials I need to study for the next day's classes, my walkman, an umbrella, an extra pair of shoes in case it rains, a stash of quarters for photocopying, some Lifesavers, a carton of apple juice, a list of emergency phone numbers, my favorite stuffed animal and a deck of cards...
Sauntering up to the youngster, the pusher demanded that Antwan serve as a hiding place for the stash or else face a beating. At first the child refused, then gave in. Business continued -- until the "Zone Rangers," an undercover Baltimore vice-and-narcotics squad that had the dealers under surveillance, suddenly sprinted into action. One team of Rangers nabbed the dealers; another pulled Antwan off the swing and confiscated the vials. By the time they reached the station house, the little boy had dissolved in tears...