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Word: toucans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curare's ingredients are still the secret of Medicine Man Gill, a handful of scientists and a jungleful of witch doctors. Others will have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Precious Poison | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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