Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other countries and other peoples?" Thundered Khrushchev: "We consider that the Monroe Doctrine has outlived its time, has outlived itself, has died, so to say, a natural death. Now the remains of the doctrine should be buried as every dead body is buried, so that it should not poison the air by its decay...
...demanded a government of "direct participation" beyond either democracy or totalitarianism, the Asians and Africans had only one concept of freedom-the very European-invented concept of national freedom that the Europeans now deplored. After hearing the Westerners' fiercely despairing selfcriticism, one inquiring African asked: "Why should your poison be our food...
...York School, dubbed it Christmas Tree, because it had been painted at that time of year. But Joan Mitchell remembered the dark and blue feeling of a Wallace Stevens poem that spoke of peacocks and hemlocks. "So I called it Hemlock, but everyone thought I meant poison...
...itself-violated Lucrèce theme sounds louder chords, as the pure lady bids the rake kill himself only for him to be killed in a duel, as the righteous judge rejects the wife he thinks was raped and she takes poison, rejecting life itself, Giraudoux's artificial story remains scrupulously behind glass. But gusts of realistic rain or melodramatic sleet from time to time beat against it. Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women...
...neighboring Connecticut and New Jersey but pay higher New York income taxes than residents, and 3) encourage, by tax deductions, voluntary construction of atomic fallout shelters in homes and commercial buildings. Originally advanced on a mandatory basis, Rockefeller's deadly earnest shelter plan was viewed as political poison by assemblymen, who sent it back to committee amid hoots of laughter that might some day have a hollow ring...