Word: boils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the board as a whole will vote on the company's seventh president, it is Donner himself who will surely have the last word. And until he gives it, the guessing game ends at the door to the General Motors building. For the surest way to boil Fred Donner's blood is to play company politics...
...case of Clarence Jackson [Sept. 1] makes an independent businessman's blood boil. Your article stated that Jackson, "could not have guessed what luck, lawyers and the law were about...
...Quick to Boil. Pulitzer's early life in Hungary, where he was born in 1847, is shrouded in obscurity. What is known is that when he left home at 17, he first tried to enlist in the army-anybody's army. But one nation after another turned him down because of his poor eyesight and frail physique. Only the Union Army, desperate for recruits in the Civil War, was willing to take...
...Modern Warlord. The squabble is not concerned with the growing or gathering of opium; that job belongs for the most part to such primitive tribesmen as the Meo, Ekaw, Bolong, Wa and Yao, who slit the poppy-seed pods for their resin, boil it into sticky raw opium, and roll it into loaves of one to five pounds. The fight grows out of a jurisdictional dispute between tribute-collecting soldiers and smugglers who deliver the stuff into the hands of the two Chinese syndicates that control the opium export from Laos...
...casting spells and consulting the spirits for nervous clients. Temple altars in Port-au-Prince were bright with new candles, Christmas lights and eerie black-magic charms; sacrificial goats and doves were led to the slaughter. Like a witch's caldron, Haiti was once again coming to a boil, and no one wanted to be on the wrong side of the gods-or Papa...