Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow bird watchers were dismissed by Special Judge Anderson Moss on the ground that the afterhours regulation had not been published in the county newspaper (the rule had been set by Commissioner Wallace in the first place). And Happy had merely wounded the crippled goose. In fact, the only dead goose was Game Warden Thomas: he got fired...
...Treatment. Soon strange reports began reaching health authorities. In the Algerian village of Saint-Cyprien-des-Attafs, a French mother tried to cure one child of boils and prevent three others from getting them by giving the kids Stalinon. Within days, the four children, aged seven to 14, were dead. Here and there around France people suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead...
...Deadly Testimony. In a somber Paris courtroom last month, the "Association of Stalinon Victims"-crippled survivors and relatives of the dead-faced pale, pudgy Pharmacist Feuillet, who was on trial for involuntary homicide. Also at issue in the trial: $5,000,000 in claims for damages. On the witness stand, a leading French toxicologist explained that Stalinon's death agent was the organic tin compound, which is well known to be chemically unstable and poisonous. Said the witness: "The tin deposits traveled to the brain and caused edema. The expanding brain tissue pressed against the skull and caused unimaginable...
Rock with caveman Roll with caveman . . . Stalactite, stalagmite Hold your baby very tight Piltdown poppa sings this song Archaeologist done me wrong The British Museum's got my head Most unfortunate 'cause I ain't dead...
Fiction Factories. This is true even of the products of the "mass" publishers (Whitman, Simon & Schuster, Grosset & Dunlap), whose millions of books are pushed through supermarkets, chain stores, drugstores, Howard Johnson restaurants, newsstands, toy stores and mail-order houses. Their authors are either long dead (and their work, therefore, in the public domain) or journeyman writers, many of them organized in large talent pools. Ideas are assigned, stories written and rewritten by teams of writers and editors, often recalling the Hollywood assembly lines...