Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida ($36 million) and Illinois ($25 million). Worse still, cigarette smuggling has become an important revenue producer for organized crime, ranking fourth behind gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that the Mob's infiltration has led to "increasing violent crime: extortion and bribery, truck hijackings, armed robberies, serious assaults and even murder" of one smuggler by another...
...point where we're too old to be playing with crayons," says Dave Spears, a black inmate enormously popular with the kids. He has been talking and listening to a youth who has come in from the Worcester Detention Center, a lock-up for juveniles who have committed violent crimes...
...Paul surgeon is one of millions of Americans who chronically suffer from that most severe of headaches: the migraine (from the Greek for "half skull").-Virtually everyone has an occasional headache, and it can usually be treated by nothing more sophisticated than aspirin. But the migraine is different. This violent cranial storm was for a long time medicine's stepchild. Few drugs were useful against it, and doctors could offer little help in relieving...
...Vertigo. A power-company worker who lives with his wife (Teri Garr) and three kids in Muncie, Ind., Roy is engulfed one night by phenomena he cannot understand: searing lights burn him from above, a road sign shakes and twists, the contents of his truck move about in violent defiance of gravity, the needles on his dashboard dials spin past go. Roy is sure that he has had an encounter...
PATERNALISM IS ONE of the milder forms of treatment freshmen can expect from upperclassmen. Shrinivas Rajagopalan, a UHS psychologist who will teach psychology and Social Relations 2400, "The Psychology of Freshmen," in the spring, says that the more violent reactions to freshmen, like scorn, practical jokes and physical cruelty, represent a realization by the upperclassmen that he too was once ignorant and helpless. He says we should keep in mind that "being a freshman for nine months is a stage we all have to go through on the way to adulthood, much like being a fetus before...