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Word: poison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest outbursts of racial violence in the South have filled me with shame and disgust. This mob violence and mass hysteria has no justification and to poison the minds of children with hatred and bigotry is nothing less than atrocious! Instead of hanging effigies, these mobs should hang their heads in shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

That is the record to which Truman and Stevenson are pointing accusing fingers. The instances of wrongdoing in the Truman Administration cannot be similarly isolated; they come as a flow of names in a record of corruption that threatened to poison the entire U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tke CORRUPTION ISSUE: A Pandora's Box | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Mollet's public loan seems to be straight fiscal poison for France. In interest charges alone the new bonds will cost the government $2,100,000 next year, and, given continued inflation, their redemption could prove a ruinous burden on the government of 1971. (Had a similar loan been floated in 1949, the government would now be obliged to pay out $250 for every $100 worth of bonds originally issued.) Worse yet, the $429 million which the loan is expected to raise will pay for only about five months of fighting in Algeria. Then, if the rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sweet Sacrifice | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

About 90% of barbiturate poisoning victims recover with no more medication than this: their systems gradually remove the poison from the blood. But Adair's was a stubborn case. After 24 hours he remained in coma. Alarmed, hospital doctors got Adair transferred to U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where researchers had been experimenting on dogs with a fluid-exchange method called peritoneal dialysis, originally devised to tide patients over a kidney shutdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dialysis v. Poison | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Professional Touch. In Storrs, Conn., after hunting a golf ball in a poison-ivy patch and getting a severe case of poisoning on both arms, Dr. Harriet Creighton swallowed her pride, presided as scheduled over the golden jubilee meeting of the Botanical Society of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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