Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seats on the executive as compared to Bevan's six. Attlee still runs the party, though his ineffectual resistance to Bevan at Morecambe cost him prestige. Herbert Morrison would continue on as Attlee's deputy leader in the House of Commons. "I will allow no bitterness to poison my soul," Morrison told the conference, in a moving speech which earned him renewed respect. The shock of the Bevan victory had already begun to soften...
...withdrawal-necessary to protect party members from Communist agents, who were supposedly threatening them. (In the past, the Reds and the neo-Nazis have been cheek by jowl.) But most Germans were convinced that the SRP was trying to dodge being outlawed, would try to continue to spread its poison underground...
South African law holds that white man's liquor is colored man's poison. Last week, Minister of Justice Charles Swart broadened the definition of "colored" to include Chinese, proclaimed that henceforth no Chinese will be allowed to buy liquor without a special permit...
...Kate Hepburn's 24 years on stage and screen, her detractors have been many. Yet most of them have had to eat their words. The most damning thing ever said of her was in 1938, when Harry Brandt, a movie exhibitor, labeled Kate "boxoffice poison." But this year Kate is stronger than she ever was: her last two films, The African Queen and Pat and Mike, are top box-office hits of the season...
...Pills & Poison. Most spies carry on (or in) their bodies three kinds of pills: 1) "knockout drops" ("which render a man unconscious for 24 hours"), 2) Benzedrine, 3) a quick-action poison for suicide. But the spycatcher may also be fairly certain that, apart from his pills, "every spy carries something incriminating either on his person or in his luggage." If he wears a watch & chain, for example, each jewel and metal segment of the watch, each link of the chain, must be microscopically examined for ciphers. All his cigarettes must be tested for invisible writing, all the tobacco sifted...