Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retirement for long. Dwight Eisenhower had been "tremendously impressed" by his judgment and his equanimity, and ended many a post-nomination strategy conference with: "Let's ask Herb." Soon Brownell was slipping in to see Candidate Eisenhower, before long had a chair to put his foot on and a phone to grasp. When the Nixon fund furor broke, it was Brownell who took charge. He talked to some of the wisest heads in the party, studied the legal implications of the fund, flew to Cincinnati to see Eisenhower. He boarded the campaign train one night unseen by the press...
...Herb." After the nomination was won, Brownell helped lay out the general campaign plans, then packed his bags and headed for his Manhattan law office. He could have been campaign manager, but he knew that the big black "D" on his old sweaters would antagonize the Midwestern Taftites, even though he was no longer Dewey...
...Herb Brownell's plan was to see how it was done in New York for a couple of years, then head back to Nebraska to set up practice in Lincoln. Two years later he changed his course, after the firm of Lord, Day & Lord made him an offer. Within three years he was a partner, had been with the firm 23 years until he resigned last month to become Attorney General. An expert in corporation law, he was general counsel for the New York World's Fair in 1939, later general counsel for the American Hotel Association...
...Hashish (from the Arabic word for dried herb), a narcotic made from the resin of female flowers of Indian hemp, is the Eastern version of marijuana. It was once the favorite stimulant of the Assassins (more properly Hashish-ins), a secret society of Shiite fanatics founded in the 11th century, whose drastic political actions led to the gradual adoption of their name as a synonym for killer...
Going into the last lap, Mal Whitfield had only one man ahead of him: Jamaica's Herb McKenley, world-record holder at 440 yds. Shortening his 8-ft. stride to fast-stepping six-footers, Whitfield visibly pulled himself together for the final burst. He passed McKenley "big," whirled into the final turn in front, breasted the red-yarn tape alone as the Madison Square Garden crowd of 12,364 rose to its feet and roared approval. The crowd roared again when the time was announced: 0.56.6, a new indoor record...