Word: arsenicated
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...mansion. But not for long. Turns out that in choosing Maggie's life, Edie has inadvertently chosen Maggie's death-at the hands of the law. Too late she discovers that it wasn't a heart attack killed Maggie's husband. It was arsenic...
...Philippe Noiret as a prudish bourgeois lout whose only concerns are family pride and the valuable pine trees on his estate at Argelouse. Living with him, Thérèse sees no way out until the day he falls ill from an accidental overdose of a medicine containing arsenic. She begins to get ideas...
...Poison Deadlier Than Arsenic...
...Charles A. Brusch, a general practitioner who operates a medical center near City Hall, also speaks for the anti-fluoridationists, but is not affiliated with any organization. Claiming that fluoride ("a poison more deadly than arsenic") can have deleterious effects on the nervous system, the circulatory system, the bones, the thyroid gland, the liver, the kidneys, and the heart, Brusch bases much of his argument on the difficulty of regulating one's daily intake of the chemical...
...center of an area rich in minerals, ranging from iron ore to arsenic, Birmingham was only founded in 1871, has none of the antebellum traditions or grace of the Old South. Its symbol since 1936 has been a forbidding 60-ton, 50-ft.-high, aluminum-coated statue of Vulcan, who was the Roman god of fire. Vulcan, high atop Red Mountain, drew workers like moths from all over the state. Most of them were unschooled, out-of-work farm people, attracted by the promise of prosperous city life...