Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beer cans at the helmeted cops below. With neither evidence nor search warrant, they clubbed McCarthy campaign workers. One cop actually broke his billy club on a volunteer's skull. Daley stood by his angry defense of his cops' conduct against the "terrorists," who, he snarled, "use the foulest of language that you wouldn't hear in a brothel house...
...According to a Los Angeles Times survey of Palos Verdes last week, high schools there "now have a proportion of drug-experienced students which police estimate at 50% and counselors put at 75%. An estimated third of the total are habitual users." Even more astonishing, the Times found, drug use has penetrated down to the sixth grade and does not always stop with pot: a few 13-year-olds are shooting the far more dangerous "speed" (Meth-edrine). Often, with eerie sophistication they insert the hypodermic into the underside of their tongues to conceal the needle tracks...
...counselor at Los Angeles' University High. Cub scouts in San Francisco discuss the pros and cons of pot with savvy, and in nearby San Rafael a marijuana sale took place right in class before the eyes of the astonished sixth-grade teacher. Nor is the increase in pot use limited to California. When the headmaster of a Colorado boarding school asked students who were using marijuana to admit it, one-third of the school trooped through his office; they are now on a year's probation...
Dayton's has fully computerized its B. Dalton operation to keep track of fastand slow-moving titles, meanwhile taking pains to make the chain seem like a group of friendly neighborhood booksellers. Most B. Dalton ads use the first person to proclaim "I am having a sale," or "I see a growing interest in the occult." Mixing mechanization with the personal touch is a Dayton's hallmark that has paid off for the company as a whole. Last year Dayton's had sales of $265,507,000 and profits of $9,587,000, a gain of some...
...couples who use rhythm for contraception, Cross prescribes a more rigorous schedule than most have practiced: intercourse is permitted for only seven clays before a menstrual period and for only seven days after the period begins. Since most couples will abstain during the period, this reduces the "safe" season to nine or ten days...