Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the campaign, Hampton also accused Lowenstein of advocating the legalization of marijuana, although Lowenstein did not in fact do so. Hampton proposed the death penalty for dealers, and life imprisonment for use of the drug, and his supporters often went down to the Lowenstein headquarters in Rockville Centre and asked students working there, "Do you really smoke...
...riding injury ruled out the usual boyhood sports. That same year, he entered his father's Austin in a hill-climbing race and finished second in his class. By the time he was 21 he had established himself as his country's foremost driver; so off he went to Europe to try his hand and foot at big-time racing. For the next five years, he learned his craft as a member of the Cooper factory team, working his way up to Grand Prix competition. But he always wanted to build as well as drive...
...Iliad by his side; in the back cover he had listed hundreds of its energetic verbs and compound adjectives-forerunners of TIME'S "beetle-browed," "buzzard-bald," etc. He also encouraged backward-running sentences ("A ghastly ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family chapels went he, robbery of the dead intent upon"). When Hadden, only 31, died of a streptococcus infection in 1929, the magazine published a Milestones item about him which ended in a typical TIME sentence: "To Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never...
...after a frustrating round, he demolished the Model-T Ford in which he traveled to and from tournaments, scaling the windshield off in one direction, a car door in another, the seats, and then he opened up the hood and went to work on the engine, shouting imprecations...
...Erector sets, laundry bags full of shoulder pads, aircraft carrier models, framed photos of The Varsity, dirty books, baseball cards and pup tents, while you got the leftovers: paper dolls, hair curlers, bedmaking, frilly underwear, dishwashing, piano lessons, pajama parties. As you grew older, things got more confusing: boys went on fishing trips with their fathers, you were taken shopping by your mother; boys covered themselves with grease, you learned to pick out the right color hair ribbon; boys stayed out late at night, you babysat; if you were sent to a sexually segregated school, you found that yours...