Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year: Bulganin and Khrushchev. These two poison ivy twins of deceit and doublecross inaugurated their diabolical crusade at the Summit with their blandishments of sweetness and avowal for peace...
...Soprano Callas had just signed a contract as leading soprano next fall with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Il Trovatore's first notes, when she stood in slender profile in her crimson robe and sang of her love for an unknown troubadour (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling), until she took poison and died in Act IV, her voice contained some of the bite and much of the richness of a clarinet. But its quality was warmed and softened with womanliness. It floated with effortless grace, swelled until it filled the whole block-long auditorium, tapered off sensuously into a decorative vocal...
...killed or driven back by the electricity before they can spawn, but good fish are affected, too, and the fences are expensive to build and operate. Dr. Moffett felt it would be much better to find some chemical that would kill the infant lampreys in their burrows. The poison would have to spare the desirable fish that use the same streams, and no such chemical was known. So Moffett sent out a call for help, asking universities and industrial companies to send him chemicals that might do the trick. In the last 2½years, the Hammond Bay Fishery Laboratory...
...beauty of chemical treatment for lampreys is that it will kill five hatches at once The adults spend only one year in the lakes returning to the streams to spawn and die. If the poison were used liberally for two years in succession, it might make Great Lakes lampreys as scarce as bison...
...Asia because they are believed to have medicinal value. The Chinese consider powdered rhinoceros horn a powerful aphrodisiac (it is not), and will pay $2,500 for a single horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble. Rhino shin is good for leg trouble; the hip cures female disorders. Even the dung is beneficial for skin ailments...