Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turmoil. Only democracy can win. You boys at Harvard need a real Christian group movement on your campus--and more group athletics at the stadium--not high priced games. The good Lord made us--unless we simply and prayerfully turn to him we get no answers. Communism is a poison--not to advocate, to take but to destroy by revealing for what it is and building on Christian foundations. Thanks for listening. Bless you. Frank Eisthebier
...wisdom. They track their game by scent. Fawcett recorded, as an animal does, and call it to be killed with strange, alluring cries that the creature cannot resist. They fish by lacing the water with a caustic sap called solimán, that stuns the fish but does not poison their flesh. Fawcett also solemnly accepted the story that the Indians know of a plant whose juices dissolve metal, and even make stone soft and workable...
...eyes glowed hate and impotent fury ... I decided, on second thought, to take him along . . . But he curtly refused to come with us, so, after summoning him three times to get in, there was nothing for it but to shoot him." Four years later, when Hitler bade Rommel poison himself, there was nothing for it but to swallow the poison...
...tell your mother,' he began slowly, 'that I shall be dead in a quarter of an hour . . . The house is surrounded, and Hitler is charging me with high treason. In view of my services in Africa ... I am to have the chance of dying by poison. The two generals have brought it with them. It's fatal in three seconds. If I accept, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family . . . It's all been prepared to the last detail. I'm to be given a state funeral ... In a quarter...
...opener. Kylie Tennant, a 41-year-old Australian woman novelist, appears to know the sharp side of Sydney almost as well as she knows how to turn a sharp sentence. Sample: "The waitresses were elderly, hard women who carried food reluctantly, but in the hope it might poison someone...