Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Gerda was safely in Canada, the Mountie report went on, she waited out her five-year-residence requirement and applied for citizenship. Then came a routine investigation that turned up not only her past record but also the fact that she "had been carrying on an illicit sexual relationship with the Associate Minister of National Defense"-Pierre Sevigny...
...Legal Supply. Inevitably, police and prosecutors got together with medical experts in a secret but carefully publicized conference to figure out ways of cutting down the illicit LSD traffic and the abuses to which the drug is put. They were likely to be even less successful than they have been with narcotics because bootleg LSD is relatively easy to manufacture. The stuff is made from lysergic acid, which is extracted from a fungus that grows on rye. By itself, it is neither dangerous nor expensive. It is usually imported from Europe. Processing it to LSD (dextro-lysergic acid diethylamide...
...everything themselves. But Harvard facilities are still meager: a one-man practice net in Dillon Field House. The team practices at The Country Club in Brookline and plays at the Myopia Hunt Club, 45 minutes from Cambridge. As a result, golfers are continually looking for some new illicit place to knock out a few balls...
What is modern? There are people now living who can remember when it was a dirty word-something to do with illicit sex, postimpressionist painting and obscure and alarming techniques of writing. For others, perhaps less aged, the word once evoked a passionately held conviction that "modernity" in the arts announced a revolution in the mind and sensibility-offering insights into the nature of life once claimed by religious illumination...
...incoming President of the Philippines has taken office with a vow to clean up the corruption that plagues the nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the illicit traffic in whisky, cigarettes and luxury goods that cheats the national treasury of an annual $125 million in import duties. It is a huge task, but Marcos has got off to an impressively early start...