Word: buckthorn
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...woods came to seem tame indeed to Southern Californians. Even last year's special event-nude skydiving with music by 15 bare members of the Long Beach Municipal Band-was sparsely attended. Just as well, perhaps, since one hapless skydiver was badly scratched when he landed in a buckthorn patch...
Ulbricht's purpose in calling the press conference: to reply to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's proposal that the two Germanys enter into negotiations for a treaty renouncing the use of force. Between swigs of an orange-colored health drink called "buckthorn juice," Ulbricht, the East bloc's last surviving Stalinist, read a 52-minute speech. Then for the next 90 minutes he answered written questions. After he had finished, there was confusion in West Germany over exactly what he meant. The Stuttgarter Zeitung headlined, ULBRICHT CALLS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH BONN; Munich's Merkur bannered...
...twenties, and the product of a college writing class (State University of Iowa), Georgia's Flannery O'Connor has already learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence. The South that simpers, storms and snivels in these pages moves along a sort...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...
Nearly every role was well acted. R. A. Roberts as Capt. Heartease, Harry Harwood as Gen. Buckthorn, J. O. Barrows as Sergt. Barket gave great satisfaction. The same might be said of Misses Tuttle and Comstock as Madeline West and Jennie Buckthorn...