Word: poison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take stances on important, albeit divisive, issues pertinent to her candidacy. Take, for example, Clinton's recent trip to the Middle East, where she attracted negative attention for failing to respond directly to the allegations of Suha Arafat, the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, that Israel had used poison gas against the Palestinians. Although Clinton later dismissed Suha Arafat's claims as "baseless," she justified her earlier inaction by appealing to her diplomatic role as the First Lady...
...long as I can remember, my father has said refined sugar and white bread are poison. As kids, we were forbidden to eat these foods. Instead we ate honey or brown sugar and German rye bread. I've always eaten like a horse, as have all members of my family, and have never been overweight. I believe any diet that eliminates these two "poisons" will be quite effective. MATHEW H. HILBING Toronto...
...Eisenhower's fits were volatile but short. Kennedy said anger was a luxury, but his 1962 negotiations with steel companies over price controls were set back when he quipped that his father was right to have called steel executives "s.o.b.s." Nixon's anger was more corrosive. He expelled pure poison on the White House tapes and had particular enemies chased by the irs. L.B.J.'s long-standing feud with Bobby Kennedy caused Johnson to descend into paranoia at times...
...poison pill," Seton says. "The administration is not going to pass a term bill with that Radcliffe money...
Granted, swordfish are an especially vulnerable target, being prized as both game fish and food fish. But they're hardly the only victims of the current global lunacy, of which the motto seems to be: if it swims, hook it, stab it, poison it or blow...