Word: castor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cubans hardly needed to be told. Political foes rushed to make deals with the new boss. Gangsters stopped shooting at each other. Employers reported an abrupt end to such familiar nuisances as wildcat strikes and absenteeism. Cubans remembered Batista. In the past, he had used castor oil, midnight arrests or gunplay; his soldiers had ruthlessly put down abortive rebellions. He could afford to be economical with the weapon of terror. "It is my destiny to make bloodless revolutions," he bragged-and added a significant qualification: "The only blood spilled will be that of those who oppose...
...than to have building restrictions relaxed. But, in most cases, when an area is declared critical, rent control must also be slapped on, and builders want no such thing. Said Woods: "They all want to get in on the sugar, but they don't want to take the castor oil." Of 250 areas where rents should be controlled, said Woods, the Critical Areas Committee has certified only...
...sixth anniversary of the liberation of Paris last week, the air over the French capital was filled with the whoosh of jet fighters. At an airfield, loudspeakers barked out flight orders in a mixture of English and French: "Castor Bleu, scramble . . . Cobra Jaune, en readiness dans quatre minutes" For three days, 450 planes of the Dutch, Belgian, British and French air forces, supplemented by U.S. B-29s, carried out Western Union's first air maneuvers. Exulted a French colonel: "Today there is actually a European air force . . . Maybe we're just a little ahead of the politicians...
Ananda liked to drive a jeep around the palace grounds, and he liked to play with guns. One day he fell sick. His mother brought him some castor oil and left him alone to sleep. A few hours later, Ananda was found dead in his bed, a pistol beside him and a bullet through his head...