Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vulnerability of a plant to chemical killing depends on many qualities, and no two species are exactly alike. Agricultural chemists were studying crop plants and their commonest weed enemies from every possible angle. They were looking for the key difference which would make weeds vulnerable to some chemical which did...
Suburbanites battle the dogged dandelion with a chemical- 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). Last week dirt farmers cheered its weed-killing feats. It had proved effective against bindweed, a wild morning-glory that is the worst weed in western grain fields. 2,4-D killed bindweed without hurting...
This sinister little classic has now been blown up by Producer Mark Hellinger into a full-length movie. There is a bangup opening with a good reproduction of the short story, virtually as Hemingway wrote it. Then an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) noses in on the inexplicable killing...
Meanwhile Lormeau convinced the police that he had not been anywhere near the hut at the time of the killing.
"Then take this gift business. Giving an intelligent, personalized gift adds to the program, certainly for the participant. But nowadays it's just a race to see who can give the biggest gifts. That sort of thing is killing whatever good there is in the idea.