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...young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper into the external auditory canal. She had to go to the George Washington University Hospital emergency room, where the staff performed what Piemme terms a "hashishectomy." Though the girl claimed not to have smoked either hash or marijuana that day, she said...
Playwrights in Residence The Virginia State Penitentiary squats smack in the middle of Richmond, a graying wad of concrete plopped down in a dreary commercial neighborhood of decaying buildings. It is a maximum-security prison that houses 1,200 inmates whose offenses run from rape and robbery right up to multiple murders. Improbably, it also houses one of the country's fastest-growing and most enthusiastic drama schools...
...average-sized wad of traveler's checks for a young Eurovisitor-from $300 to $500-covers about two months of vagabondage. But not always. The American Express offices in London, Paris and other cities have long lines of youthful destitutes waiting to receive cabled bail-out money from home. Each week many hundreds of suddenly penniless visitors apply to U.S. consulates for help...
Kaplan and three witnesses testified that a wad of paper which Teodoru threw into the audience at Sanders had hit the defendant...
...after having been picked up by bright-eyed reporters and scavenging trend-setters, after having been beaten lifeless and ground up into a pasty, ready-to-serve-easy-to-digest product, after having been mashed between the gums of force-fed consumers and spat out in a tasteless wad of words, if after going through all this the phrase "doing your own thing" can still have any meaning, then it has meaning in the style of the Grateful Dead...