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Word: banishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...throaty bass: "In the name of God, know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Buddha v. Pollution | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...What letter of the alphabet did pirates banish in a children's book by James Thurber? Name the book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOSTALGLA Can You Name The Bobbsey Twins? | 11/18/1970 | See Source »

Sledgehammer v. Gnat. The Department of Agriculture is trying to banish the fire ant. But its latest plan for doing it is under sharp attack by three conservationist groups-the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and CLEAN (Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural). The Department's program calls for discharging 450 million pounds of a bait containing 1,350,000 lbs. of Mirex-a powerful chlorinated hydrocarbon-on 150 million acres of land in nine Southern states. In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., "on behalf of all citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting the Fire Ant | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...begun a poster campaign advising passersby to banish the "munchies" with an Omnivare sandwich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Omnivare Battles Linden St. Odds | 8/11/1970 | See Source »

...misconceptions of whites, and the continual confusing of the black American's racial background with his individual culture. Most of all, I refer to the recurring fantasy of solving one basic problem of American democracy by getting "shut" of the blacks through various wishful schemes that would banish them from the nation's bloodstream, from its social structure, and from its conscience and historical consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT AMERICA WOULD BE LIKE WITHOUT BLACKS | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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