Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note was certainly not what he had expected to find when he made a routine call at the "Haunted House," a Victorian horror in Jackson Heights, on the Long Island reaches of New York City, where old Mrs. Folsom lived with her daughter. He stared at the bottle marked Poison that he clutched in one hand, and then at the terrified young woman whose wrist he held firmly in the other. The bottle, as the doctor had reason to know, contained a placebo-sugar pills. And the mother, as he soon discovered, had not been poisoned; she had died...
...underneath his surface the man is a coward, and his fear eventually leads him to hell. One of the two women, however, clearly belongs there from the very beginning. As portrayed by Charlotte Clark, her personality appears to contain only venom, with lesbianism as the motive force of her poison. Miss Clark does not always convey the viciousness of her character, but at its best her performance is a fascinating thing to watch...
...Television is the pernicious poison of America. I find nothing but shooting, prison scenes, divorces, teen-age girls going wrong. You can just twiddle on it any time of day or night. It doesn't give children time to read, or think, or dream...
With their speakers' slate wiped clean, the committee on arrangements decided to replace its guests with five Oxford, Miss, clergymen. After all. wrote Negro-baiting Editor Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News, "we may feel reasonably sure that [local clergymen] will not be spewing poison into the minds of our young people." The five untainted ones, however, respectfully declined. At week's end the committee on arrangements decided to turn Religious Emphasis Week into three days of meditation and prayer-without any clergymen around who might have dangerous ideas...
Says Dr. Mirsky by way of warning: "Anything which poisons one substance in the body may also poison others. Only time will tell whether these compounds can safely be taken indefinitely." But Mirsky predicted that within a couple of years, drugs taken by mouth will control diabetes safely and effectively...