Word: herbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delicate, wide-leafed tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum) became known as "the divine herb" and "the princess of plants." But the foes of tobacco spied the devil's hoofs beneath the princess' skirt. King James I of Great Britain called tobacco "the lively image and pattern of hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds...
...happened, Herb Matthews was on vacation last week; indeed he was in Cuba being greeted by Castro cohorts...
...without planning and organization, and Jack Kennedy has the smoothest-running, widest-ranging, most efficient personal organization in the Democratic Party today. It has men, money and brains; his opponents claim it is the most savvy and hard-nosed group put together in U.S. politics since Tom Dewey and Herb Brownell swept Taft out of the G.O.P. race...
...pushed, has finished some races looking back at the field with a laugh on his face. At the Olympics in Rome this summer, Burleson will get plenty of pushing from such stars as Czechoslovakia's Stanislav Jungwirth (3:38.1 for the 1,500 meters) and Australia's Herb Elliott, record holder of the mile (3:54.5) and 1,500 meters (3:36). Says the confident Burleson: "If I can keep within 20 yards of the leader of a race, I figure I can outkick anyone...
...Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, 47 last week, let it be known that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. In fact not Nixon but his press secretary Herbert Klein, editor on leave from the San Diego Union, did the honors. Amiable Herb Klein called in some of the Washington press corps for a 20-min. press conference, said casually that Nixon had "willingly" let his name be entered for the G.O.P. primaries in New Hampshire, Oregon and Ohio. Nixon, he added, would not go into the states to campaign-"not even once." Said Klein...