Carson, Rachel

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An American author and scientist of the twentieth century who was fervently devoted to defending the natural world against pollution. Her best-known books are Silent Spring, concerning the overuse of pesticides and weed killers, and The Sea Around Us.

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She is considered to be the founder of the modern environmental movement.

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How to use Carson, Rachel in a sentence

“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
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“I feel a shaking of the ground I stand on,” Carson tells Mrs. Hughes with trepidation.
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And, not entirely coincidentally, he had to do the song on Johnny Carson.
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Muse was looking to regain custody of her four children—Justin, Sarah, Patrick and Rachel.
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She wrote for LIFE magazine and would go on Johnny Carson to promote her books.
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We trust to the reader's good-nature to excuse the unfair use which Rachel made of the back parlor window.
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As Rachel surmised, the latter had a beau; and Ida's hasty survey excited a feeling of surprise.
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"Miss Josephine must 'spect her beau; she's mightily fined off," commented Rachel, when she came up from her meal.
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Rachel made out his badge of office through the obscurity, and pressed to her mistress' side.
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The first person on my list of those who could give me information, was Mrs. Rachel Peabody.
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