Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening was Robert Taft, whom the 12,000 partisans seemed to want for their presidential candidate in 1952. The man who electrified the crowd, however, was Senator Joe McCarthy, who vowed: "The Republican Party [has] a mandate to stand as a solid wall against the slow poison of Socialism and the dagger death of Communism." Lincoln got the homage, Taft got the respect, Joe McCarthy got the cheers...
Australia's rabbit eats a quarter of the country's pasturage. Cattlemen have tried poison, fences, shot & shell-all without success. Last week a new weapon promised to cut the rabbit down to size...
...Poison for the Hero. Young's picture of Rommel is that of a great commander and a simple, unsophisticated man who blindly followed his Führer until, belatedly, he saw him taking Germany to ruin. Near the end, Rommel entered a plot to overthrow Hitler but, according to Young's sources, never joined in the July 1944 plot on Hitler's life. Rommel did buck his chief on the strategy for countering the invasion, and finally advised...
...Normandy and sent it spinning out of control. Physically tough, Rommel recovered from a triple fracture of the skull. But during the convalescence, Hitler had been tracking down everyone suspected of being in on the plot. He gave Rommel his choice of a trial or suicide. Rommel chose poison, and Hitler gave him a hero's funeral. The question Biographer Young never answers is how his shining hero could stomach the Nazi program as long as victory seemed possible, turned on Hitler only when defeat was certain...
...visions of themselves as Central Intelligence men--the kind that sip cognacs in little Bulgarian cafes. The thought of agents around the College infecting piles of dirty laundry with wire recorders is terrifying. From this it is only a short step to Steve Roper buttonhole-cameras, boutonnieres that squirt poison, and two-way wrist radios...