Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trials and executions went on. At Havana's 195-year-old La Cabaña fortress, death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout...
...turn you into gentlemen and Christians, so that you may control your appetites and passions and thus conquer the sin of self." The Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question on Clark's first examination in physiology read: "Furnish evidences of the existence of one intelligent and benevolent Creator...
Public opinion backed tough measures. Reason: in weed-clogged ditches, in police-station cellars and in shallow, unmarked graves, hundreds of Cuban families were searching for the bodies of their rebel sons, slain by the cops. One abandoned well in the western province of Pinar del Rio yielded 13 decomposing corpses...
There is a simple way to weed out patients who are "allergic to everything": apply two patches with equal pressure, one patch containing suspected allergen and the other inert. If the reaction is the same, the patient has dermographia...
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like...