Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a Finance Minister was poison to politicos. Bosch all but stopped the gravy train that had shuttled in & out of the Treasury since the republic's birth.*Outraged Congressmen got up all kinds of investigating committees to harry him. They quizzed him in practically every field of government finance, sometimes till 3 in the morning. A fortnight ago they summoned him for more heckling on his plan for reorganizing a rundown government workers' retirement fund. Bosch testily told them he had a previous engagement, went off to a Bacardi board meeting at which he was elected company...
...soon afterward, the doctor, the lawyer and eight witnesses went into a snow-covered country cemetery to dig up the woman's body. The young doctor's autopsy, performed in a nearby shed, proved to the court that death had been caused by drowning and not by poison. The lawyer's client was acquitted. "All at once," says Dr. Gradwohl now, "it struck me with great force how much could depend on the proper scientific inquiry into the cause of sudden death." Last week, Dr. Gradwohl made the same point in Chicago in a speech marking...
...Senator McCarthy has spread his rat poison so carelessly that the freedoms for which we are fighting will die from his medicine long before the Russians could ever get here...
...Korea, the Japanese clapped her in jail as a spy, but let her go after a small fine. Four years later, as a reporter for N.E.A., she covered the Sino-Japanese war and scored a worldwide beat with her pictures and eyewitness account of the Japanese use of poison gas in the battle of Ichang...
...grow as fast as an ABC-and-X-fed shoat. In 33 years, Glidden has expanded from a $2,500,000-a-year paint company into a $200 million-a-year concern with 37 plants in the U.S. and Canada. It turns out hundreds of products, ranging from bug poison to salad dressing, from lacquer to sex hormones. In the past two years, Glidden's new products have included a quick-drying paint (Spred Satin), sweetened coconut shreds that stay fresh until used, silicone enamel (a cross between porcelain and plastic used for washing machines, refrigerators...