Word: sumac
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...bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics. It can be grown easily almost anywhere, hence tends to be inexpensive, as drugs go. Its recent prices (10? to 50? a cigaret) have placed it beneath...
...From Sumac-Couvert, the name given it by early French settlers because of its dense sumac thickets...
Flivvers herd fireflies down the sumac...
...bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their paintings for the Virginia Museum...
though poison sumac grew in the empty pastures...