Word: ts
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Thus, in parts of the U.S. where heroin has become difficult to get or too expensive, a cheap-and dangerous-substitute has taken its place. Known as Ts and Blues, it is a mixture of Talwin, a morphine-like painkiller sold only by prescription, and Pyribenzamine, a blue antihistamine tablet available over the counter. They are stolen and sold to junkies for about $10 a pair, one-quarter the price of a hit of heroin. Mixed, dissolved and injected, they give a heroin-like rush-and quickly produce a heroin-like dependency. Says a drug addict in New Orleans...
...last year, hospitals reported 3,669 cases related to Ts and Blues, compared with 12,785 for heroin. But in some cities-particularly New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Albany and St. Louis - the new "rig" is more prevalent than heroin. Says Lieut. Lawrence Forberg of the Chicago narcotics squad: "I predict it will possibly equal heroin usage." Since first appearing in Chicago during the mid-'70s, Ts and Blues have spread with frightening speed. John Mudri, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Detroit, began noticing the combination a little over a year ago in early 1980. Says...
Questions about what to wear in summer were met with a list of absolute don'ts--with green espadrilles and madras shirt dresses heading the list...
Ever since 1913, when Henry Ford fired up the world's first moving assembly line in Highland Park, Mich., to build Model Ts and began paying workers the then unthinkable salary of $5 a day, Detroit has been the center of the American automobile business. All five of the country's automakers (including Volkswagen of America) have their headquarters in Detroit or one of its suburbs...
...Same Party, she quotes a friend: "If we wanted to go to parties together, we'd still be married." In fact, Ford tactics often reflect the celebrated advice of Mr. Punch to a young person contemplating marriage: "Don't." Charlotte's web of don'ts includes, with some reservations: rigid enforcement of "house rules" for weekend guests; bedroom segregation of unmarried lovers; gossiping about mutual friends and former loved ones; serving drugs at a party...