Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio State (6-1-2)-avoided the forward pass as though it were poison, used a crunching ground game that ate up yardage in small but steady chunks to gain third place...
...Dowager Horniman, who cuts her gowns from old muslin curtains and passes her time collecting pet jellyfish "cast up on the beach by the insensate cruelty of the Spanish tide"; Seumas Cullen, the Dublin painter who established his reputation on one painting, which he exhibits year after year; a poison-pen writer named Peadar, who vents his spleen on a local landlady by addressing a note to "The Biggest Old Bitch in Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum hangs the Chaos canvas upside down ("We're a young country," pleads the director), and Tommy...
...Mass, an assisting cardinal placed on the Pope's shoulders the pallium, a white wool band symbolizing his authority as Bishop of Rome, and the sacristan performed the grim ritual of tasting the wine to be used, as reminder of the days when Popes often died by poison. At the conclusion of the Mass a silk purse containing 25 ancient coins was presented to the Pontiff, traditional payment for "a Mass well done...
...Carabiniere. Until she died last winter, Renata Tebaldi's mother accompanied her on all her tours, acted so effectively as a backstage buffer for her daughter that fellow singers affectionately nicknamed her "The Carabiniere." She handled Renata's mail (weeding out the occasional poison-pen letters from over-zealous Callas fans), took care of her clothes and costumes, stationed herself in the wings to minister to Renata with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore...
...conscience is aroused-or perhaps just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants, he may end by saving himself...