Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan's second city in almost 28 years. Some old-timers remember him as the towheaded youngster who played center on the South High football team. Others recall him as the industrious fellow earning $2 a week plus lunches waiting on tables during the Depression. Mrs. Ella Koeze Weed, an early supporter of Ford's, recalls his boldness; he dared to importune her with the risque wolf whistle. "I used to think, 'Well, that big kid in the dirty coveralls has a nerve-whistling at me like that...
...Northeastern runners, the Flora twins--You know, I'm a gardener during the summer, and two twins named Flora put the finishing touches on us. Something is just not right. I just swear when I see them. Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray, I would have sprayed it on them. On a loss to Northeastern--We ran, we swam, we splashed and we struggled. We were purified by the rains from heaven and defiled by Northeastern. On last year's injury jinx-- At present writing we're not a team that started thick to begin...
MANATEES. Native to Florida, South America and the Caribbean, the manatee (or sea cow) was once regarded as the answer to the water hyacinths; each was believed to consume as much as 100 lbs. of the hyacinths a day. But placed in weed-clogged waters, the manatee ate its way through a mere 40 lbs. of the damnable plant daily. The hulking, hairless creatures, who may have helped inspire the mermaid legend (their mammaries faintly resemble those of a woman), also find it difficult to coexist with power boats. University of Miami biologists report that about 20% of all manatees...
Many of the cigarettes are imported from India, some under the name of Mint Bidis. These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed. It can be highly poisonous in large doses and yields strong hallucinatory drugs. One patient, who arrived at the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within...
...more abundant choice: he examined 396 herbs and spices available singly or blended. Although 43 of them contain psychoactive agents, most are so weak that only heavy overindulgence is likely to produce mental effects requiring medical treatment. Yet one California tea tripper who made his own brew from Jimson weed "had hallucinations with scenes of demons, devils and voodoo people chasing him." He wandered barefoot in the woods for hours, over nettles and thorns that lacerated his feet and left them bloody, but felt no pain. He set fires to keep away the voodoo people, which led to his rescue...