Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...council:the tea can ruin even an adult's circulation to the point of killing him. A likelier danger from the floral decorations of a contemporary Christmas is that a youngster will pull off and chew one of the pretty, pointed green leaves of a poinsettia plant. These contain an acrid juice that can also be fatal...
There must be a nagging fear, however, in the minds of skiing's entrepreneurs, that the boom may contain the seeds of its own destruction, for so much of the appeal of the sport in the past was esoteric. A skiing holiday was a kind of retreat and the jargon and attire proved to be gamesmanly ploys back home. But now that every street urchin has a quilted parks, this sort of appeal has been irrevocably lost. The question is: how much of skiing's popularity has been due to the sport itself and how much to the ancillary institutions...
...charged the U.S. with needless bloodshed, quoting a State Dept. officer as saying, "Villages of 3,000 or more are bombed if they are thought to contain as few as five Viet Cong...
...Chateau Country," where the family's estates lock one into another to form a magnificent preserve for shooting and fox hunting. Proud of their French Huguenot ancestry, the Du Fonts have given their places such names as Montchanin, Granogue, Chevannes, Nemours, Louviers and Bois des Fosses. The houses contain the big-game trophies bagged by the family on African safaris, the pictures of such Du Pont yachts as the American Eagle (a 1964 America's Cup contender) and cups won by the family's thoroughbreds, including Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso...
...will report the game's score inaccurately and may even contain as many other mistakes as a normal issue of the Lampoon. Do not be fooled. Accept only a genuine CRIMSON extra (which will be available minutes after the game...