Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy's success in smearing Tydings and others generates fear of the consequences of dissent. This fear is exaggerated by the "liberals" who welcome McCarthyism as an issue; but the fear exists-and it is poison in a democracy...
Limited Offensive. In Pittsburgh, haled into court for seasoning her husband's gravy with rat poison, Mrs. Margaret Kearns declared that she had caught him coming home with lipstick smeared on his shirt, explained that she didn't really want to hurt him: "Rat poison doesn't kill rats. It just makes them sick...
Members of his staff are presently studying poisons. At one time it was difficult to detect poison in the system of a dead body, and once detected, to prove it did not come from the embalming fluid...
Included in the library are slides illustrating such things as bullet wounds, and stomachs distorted by poison. Pictures in the files show bodies, or parts of the body, under autopsy, as well as instruments of violence...
...insect sting is another man's poison. In Rye, N.Y. last week, Charles Pilger Jr., 28, was stung by a bee, died a few minutes later when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis...