Word: arsenic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will Kuluva, as the Russian spymaster, radiates the impersonal menace of a prescription for arsenic, while as Gouzenko, Townes suggests very gracefully a sort of soulful bureaucrat. Unluckily, there is an epilogue in which Gouzenko himself appears, wearing a black cloth mask that makes him look like an executioner. In deed, if the picture survives, it is not because he fails to lower...
...best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble on the TV screen without jelling. Producer Martin Manulis should have better results with plays to come. Among them: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Panama Hattie, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, Ah, Wilderness...
...fashioned a crude raft to carry him downriver to civilization. The raft upset, dumped Pick and his belongings into the river. Starting out on foot again, he lived for four days on dried milk and oatmeal. When he finally reached his truck again, he was retching with agony from arsenic poisoning picked up by drinking the fouled Muddy Creek water...
...grown in pure crystals, cut into strips, then impregnated to a depth of only one ten-thousandth of an inch with minor impurities. The top surface is treated with boron, whose atom has one less electron in its outer shell than silicon has; the bottom layer is treated with arsenic, whose atom has one more electron in its outer shell than silicon has. When light strikes near the junction of the two layers, it pushes electrons to the bottom surface, pulls "holes" (electronless gaps) to the top surface, creating a difference in voltage. The current formed is channeled off through...
...paste containing arsenic, "attractive to ants and children alike...