Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Brent goes digging in the tomb of Ramses V, she takes to lounging around in the incense-heavy den of her blackmailer-lover (Charles Korvin), plotting her husband's murder. By the time Brent's system has absorbed about all the slow poison it will stand, Merle suddenly searches her heart and discovers that her husband, after all, is the man she really, truly loves. With no alternative, the unhappy lady briskly feeds the knockout powders to her lover instead...
...thread of a story as it follows the overlanders in their struggles to get the. cattle safely past crocodiles, swollen rivers, poison weed, dry water holes, stampedes...
Even rougher than Friday night festivities for several thousand men of Dartmouth was the first sight of the headline in their morning "Dartmouths" as they rolled out of bed: "Seven Indian Starters Overcome by Food Poison On Eve of Game...
...Nurnberg last week an official announcement explained-partly-how Hermann Goring had managed to cheat the gallows with a phial of potassium cyanide crushed in his mouth two hours before execution time. He had had the poison, the report said, on his person when captured, and had managed to keep it hidden during the whole 17 months of his captivity...
...phial of potassium cyanide was all Hermann Göring needed to cheat the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). The poison is a favorite with suicides. It is quick: five grains kill in 15 minutes; a heavier dose will do the job in two. Unless given immediately, antidotes are useless...