Word: toke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the senior tutor's apartment. The man enters the party. A panorama of naked wolves raise their hungry and wondrous eyes to him. It is dark and they are all seated on the floor, forming a circle and passing the pipe with an ambience of mysterious ritual. They toke and laugh and smile nervously as they apply their peripheral vision; some just roll back their eyes beneath closing eyelids and fall back on the floor with only the ceiling to reckon. Little Joe and his girlfriend preside over the ritual sitting on the bed, filling pipes and rolling joints...
Toward 9 a.m.-still an ungodly hour for secular New Yorkers to be up and about on a Sunday-there are some 2,000 of these folks (8,000 more are still coming on the No. 10 bus and other conveyances) spreading their blankets, unpacking their Frisbees, getting one toke over the line and window-shopping the small army of pushcart food vendors already in business. There are shishkebab carts, doughnut-and-apple-juice carts, organic-bread carts and, later, one kimono-clad Occidental mixing onions, ground beef, celery and sweet peppers in a charcoal-fired wok (yummy). Suddenly, from...
...girl screamed, the guy gurgled forth obscenities and the student porter dove into friendly porcelain territory locking the door behind him. Squeegee. And then there is the woman proctor who always answers the door half-dressed. Bab-O cleanser. And the people who always offer him a toke on one of their perpetual joints. And the messy sink of the person with the weak stomach. And the people with bad aim. Oh, the walls. Polishing rag. And the mirrors of those who stood too close doing battle with their blemishes. Plastic spray bottle. And those who left town without flushing...
...kept mum on sex rock. In 1971, when there were complaints about such suspect drug songs as White Rabbit, Puff the Magic Dragon "and One Toke Over the Line, the FCC drew up guidelines on the airing of dope lyrics. The agency is impotent about sex, however. Explains Jason Shrinsky, the lawyer who represents 200 radio stations before the FCC: "Sex is so subjective. The FCC doesn't know what standard...
...Scaggs 22. I Like What You Give Nolan 23. I Don't Blame You At All Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 24. Wild Horses Rolling Stones 25. Mercy Mercy Me Marvin Gaye 26. Ain't No Sunshine Bill Withers 27. Bring the Boys Home Freda Payne 28. One Toke Over the Line Brewer and Shipley 29. When I'm Dead and Gone McGuiness Flint 30. You Are Everything Stylistics 31. Mandolin Wind Rod Stewart 32. Got to Be There Michael Jackson 33. Get On Up, Get Into It, Get Involved James Brown 34. Do Me Right Detroit Emeralds...