Word: poisonous
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...also resurrects the often-forgotten point that school busing is "an old practice in virtually each of the fifty states." On ecology: "Picking up beer cans from the highway is touted as proper social activism by the Nixon Administration, while the corporate murderers who continue to manufacture filth to poison our air and water go free...
...owes his creation to Dr. Richard Moriarty of the Poison Information Center at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, who conducted tests to determine which of several designs was the least appealing to a curious child. The symbol owes its name to one of the youthful participants in Moriarty's study. Explaining why he would not pick up a bottle bearing the bilious Day-Glo green face, the child explained simply, "He looks yukky...
...Pretty Poison. Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld in a 1968 murder tale filmed in Massachusetts. Lorenzo Semple Jr. took a New York Film Critics Award for his screenplay. CH.7. 9:30 p.m. Color...
Nixon heads into his last term under a cloud of partisan acrimony engendered by the charges and counter-charges growing out of the Watergate political-espionage investigations. A criminal trial, several civil suits, a Senate committee investigation led by Democrats, all may poison the atmosphere. The highly protective and pugnacious White House domestic staff seems more adept at political infighting than at helping the President govern by conciliating contending factions...
...faintly instructional air of a classroom film strip. By contrast, the movie assassination is staged like a scene out of some Hammer horror epic. Trotsky roars and staggers about after Jacson has smashed his skull with an ice ax. Images of Rasputin, riddled by bullets and reeling from poison, are inevitable and surely inappropriate...