Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out, the squadron was high on Kehrli in more ways than one. In Saigon, a military court sentenced the colonel to three years in prison and fined him $15,000 not only for being an enthusiastic user of marijuana but also for passing it around to his men, often at pot parties in his quarters. At the colonel's trial, a young intelligence officer testified that Kehrli had even been a pot proselytizer at Saigon military officers' clubs. "Marijuana is a good thing," Kehrli told the officer during one conversation. "It allows me to understand...
Gorilla pimp. A user of strong-arm tactics to get and keep prostitutes...
Well spoken, unemotional, direct in manner. Conti seemed to be an effective witness for the prosecution. When Calley stared at him, he stared back steadily. When one of the defense attorneys, Richard Kay, shouted at him, trying to establish that Conti had been a heavy user of marijuana while in Viet Nam, he coolly denied it. Conti did admit when pressed that at the time of the My Lai operation he was being treated for a venereal disease...
...next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York gallery owner, Louis Ruocco, noted that the painter was a "user of people," who admired Salvador Dali and his methods of attracting publicity. The attack, Ruocco guessed, was probably a publicity stunt. But Ligoa Duncan, another gallery owner, suggested that the "modest man" she knew would not have attempted such...
...publisher's part-painstaking work on editing and layout. Most cookbooks seem to aim solely for brevity. Beat the eggs with the sugar simply will not do unless it is followed by how long to beat and what the result should look or act like. No cookbook user is unfamiliar with that terse and truly enigmatic staple of mousse and souffle recipes: Fold in egg whites. What belongs in its place is a paragraph of detailed instructions involving America's foremost contribution to culinary art: the rubber spatula. Beyond such basic requirements, it is a great bonus...