Word: weede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argue with them. "I'm really turned on, man," she cried. "I'm higher than a giraffe's toupee. I started blasting when I was 13." Her two dogs, she confided, like marijuana too. "When the pups were two months old, I'd blow weed smoke in a paper bag and put it over their heads. I did the same for the canary. Sing? Man, he just dropped over-stoned...
What would McGranery do about corruption in Government? "Clean it out and get rid of it . . . Weed out and fire any incompetent, disloyal or dishonest employee . . . Easy as pie." With McCarran's help, he brushed off, as mere feuding, some caustic testimony leveled at him by his Philadelphia enemy and fellow Democrat District Attorney Richardson Dilworth. (Said Dilworth of McGranery: "He would be most political . . . Anything would go for his political friends, anything to garrote his political enemies...
...infinite variety of new products. From a new abundance of such coal-hydrogenation chemicals as toluene, xylene, napthalene and phenol, predicted Union Carbide's President Morse Dial, will come an endless stream of new medicines and drugs, long-wearing and fireproof fabrics, new paints and detergents, better weed-killers and insecticides...
Hughes flatly denied it, promised that RKO would get back to normal as soon as he sets up a system to weed out Reds. Says he: "I know I have made myself the No. 1 s.o.b. in the minds of a lot of people in Hollywood, but we will never get rid of Communist sympathizers in this business unless somebody admits their existence and faces the problem squarely...
...York Times is to be believed, Howard Hughes, who has given the United States such things as Jane Russell, contributed to the development of political, thought the other day--though probably without realizing it. In halting production at R.K.O. Radio Pictures for an indefinite period--ostensibly to weed out persons suspected of being Communists or having Communist sympathies--Hughes explained, according to the Times: "The extent of alleged Communist influence in Hollywood is such that 'every one' of eleven stories, selected as the best for filming out of 150 read by the studio over a period of six months...