Word: canteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mild laxative." When contents of two suspect shakers were analyzed, their salt was found mixed with 2.36% by weight of atropine, a deadly white, crystalline alkaloid poison made of the nightshade plant. For adults, as little as 10 mg. of atropine can cause coma, and a salt-hungry canteen customer might presumably have shaken enough on his food to make himself pretty sick. "Tragedies were prevented," said Hazelhoff...
Blob & Prosper. Ten years ago, at 28, he got his first art commission, a mural depicting "Children Begging" for the Amsterdam city-hall canteen. Lunching civil servants said it upset their digestion, hurled butter pats at it. The resulting controversy made him famous...
...practicing Catholic of "good" family. All are unmarried (except officers); all must sign up for five years of long, lonely hours patrolling Vatican corridors; only a lucky few draw outdoor posts. Fraternization with civilians is forbidden. The guards worship in their own chapel in Vatican City, have their own canteen, even their own cemetery. Pay is low, and there is a 10 p.m. curfew in summer, 9 p.m. in winter...
...after a terrorist bomb exploded under a settee in a Royal Air Force canteen, killing two airmen, the British in retaliation abruptly dismissed some 4,000 Greek Cypriot employees (but not the Turkish Cypriot employees) from all of the island's R.A.F. bases and canteens, thus throwing many innocent people out of work. If, as the British maintain, most Greek Cypriots deplore EOKA terrorism, they were being made...
Glass will be used extensively in the structure; the theatre's west wall and back side will be almost entirely glass. In addition, the auditorium area will be surrounded on the second level with offices, dressing areas, a canteen, and other rooms...