Word: camphor
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Several of the wounded had air and camphor injected into their veins. The morning after the futile revolt groups of men were taken out into the countryside, tied, gagged and disfigured by torture, and murdered in cold blood. Death warrants read, "Shot while attempting to escape." Many were compelled to dig their own graves, some buried alive, their hands bound behind them...
...famous, Puccini had a string of affairs with his more shapely Mimis, Musettas and Butterflys ("I am guilty," he wrote, "but it is my destiny that I must be guilty"), and Elvira was driven to following him, dressed as a man. As a last resort, she slipped camphor in her husband's pocket on the theory that it had a debilitating effect and would diminish his ardor. It didn't. Finally, when he was 50, Elvira unjustly accused a servant girl of being his mistress, drove her to suicide - and Puccini to a frenzy of remorse. When...
...Under Secretary of State had not known what he was talking about. Hoover's State Department knows of no direct trade between Formosa and Red China; Hoover's State Department knows only that some $250,000 worth of Nationalist Chinese exports to British Hong Kong (Chinese medicines, camphor, citronella, etc.) were transshipped during 1955 to the Communists. When U.S. Senators and Chinese Nationalist diplomats expressed consternation, Herbert Hoover politely withdrew. His statement, he said last week, was "in error." He added: "There is no evidence of direct commercial contact between Nationalist China and Communist China...
...Camphor balls and chrysanthemums mingled their odors in stately Meiji Memorial Hall last week as eager bridegrooms in rented cutaways thronged Tokyo's biggest marriage center to claim their kimonoed brides. In the corridors couples stood ten and twelve deep, waiting to go through the sake-drinking ceremony known as three-times-three-is-nine. Between marriages, the blue-and-white-robed Shinto priests, whose duty it is to provide suitable flute music, raced to washrooms to soak their aching fingers in hot water...
...dawn until dusk. Pedicab coolies in conical straw hats and straw raincoats lounged by their carriages, inspecting their bare toes as they waited to take Formosan families on New Year's calls. A soft fog ringed the lush, green hills, throwing a grey blanket over the palms, the camphor trees and the sweet-potato patches...