Word: chloroformed
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First they fed him nine baked bananas at a meal. Then they tried oxalic acid. Finally, Jones dipped a piece of sponge in some chloroform, formed a cone with a towel and stuck it on Rice's nose...
...home of Politician Hossain Khatibi, once a prominent supporter of Mossadegh and now loudly in opposition, they were bothered by the heavy smell of perfume mixed with another, hard-to-place odor. Under questioning, the servants cracked: the other smell, which the perfume was intended to hide, was chloroform...
...State House in Boston was haunted by a fox for a whole week. Night watchmen would spot him skimming along the corridors and noted he kept fat on State House mice and leftovers from legislators' luncheons. Finally the fox was cornered in a basement tunnel hideout, doped with chloroform-impregnated cheesecloth on a long pole and later released in rolling New England woodland...
Gunther's mouth often seems as wide open as his eyes. Noting that F.D.R. and his mother both nearly died at his birth from an overdose of chloroform, he ponificates: "Of such hairbreadths is history nade." A shudder passes over him when he recalls that Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928 by only 25,000 votes: "His whole future career was made possible by less than 1 per cent of the electorate. What would have happened to America in the turbulent 19303-and later , -if this minuscule handful of voters had gone the other way?" Admirers...
...Chloroform. The airline industry might find it could not afford to lose them all. The nonskeds had tapped a new market by making air travel cheap enough to lure bus and rail-coach riders who never flew before. If some of the irregulars had irregular safety records, they had also proved to the scheduled airlines that they could fill their planes by cutting frills and fares. Nevertheless, many scheduled airlines still agreed with ex-CAB Chairman James M, Landis that the U.S. was cluttered with too many airlines. "An intrinsically weak airline," he told a Senate committee last week, "either...