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Word: poisonously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mouth shut, and, in fact, has urged the candidate to swallow some of his windy and revealing answers. But, he said with some resignation and humor, "That's Jimmy. He'll tell everything. He's come a long way being open. It may be political poison nationally, but it worked in Georgia." Stoic and cheerful as he sounded, Kirbo was a bit depressed, and back in Georgia he showed it-which was surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Tardy SOS to the establishment | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...Such poison! In 1959, the Yankee's third place finish inspired a hater to compose lovely verse. It was entitled, "To an ex-American League pennant winner...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Back in the Ballpark | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...field to shove each other). Now you can go to see baseball played. Now you who hate the Yankees can go and hate in the old bitter and passionate and utterly unavenged way that you used to. It will do as much good now as it did them. Your poison is welcome. It means that at least for a moment the Yankees are the Yankees once more, and thanks...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Back in the Ballpark | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...action to excoriation. When he noticed that the antidote on the labels of all wood-alcohol products was medically unsound and possibly fatal, he filed a successful petition with the Consumer Product Safety Commission for new labeling regulations. Two weeks ago Denenberg petitioned the commission to order all U.S. poison labels-some 50,000-rewritten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Horrible Herb Show | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...consumerism dominates his life: in his spare hours, he writes a weekly column for the Philadelphia Bulletin and is working on a book on health care. Says he: "My greatest satisfaction is keeping some kid from drinking poison or making some Government agency do what it's supposed to do. For relaxation I go out and read food labels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Horrible Herb Show | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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