Word: hemlock
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...given a network airing, the frog was compromised. Or so Henson decided. Like Jim Thorpe, Kermit played for money, and now must relinquish his amateur standing. He is being phased out of the show. He will be replaced by such Muppets as Lecturer Herbert Birdsfoot and Sherlock Hemlock, a bumbling sleuth...
...Hemlock All Around...
...Basileus. As the No. 2 man in the nine-man elected Athenian hierarchy, the basileus often acted as the city's chief magistrate. It was in this capacity that he presided over the Athenian judges who ordered Socrates to take his own life by drinking a cup of hemlock...
...theologically and liturgically conservative." He adds ruefully that he might also have been intolerant. Feeling that all men were symbolically present at Golgotha on Good Friday, he imagines himself as a Hellenized Jew who asks, "Why can't authorities execute criminals humanely and in private by giving them hemlock, as they did with Socrates...
THIRD DAY. A chill, gusty rain whipped through the trees. "This is good," said Fred. "The deer's vision will be dimmed by raindrops on their eyelashes." Toward nightfall, as the downpour subsided into a fine mist, Fred spied a big buck munching on ground hemlock 80 yards away. Slowly, silently, Fred positioned his razorhead arrow and watched for five, ten, 20 excruciating minutes as the buck worked his way toward the clearing. But suddenly, he jerked his head, wriggled his nose, and was off into the bush. "Damn!" exclaimed Fred as he huddled over the camp stove. "With...