Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power, a trust in a Big Navy-but from being a fervent supporter, he turned to a bitter enemy when Franklin Roosevelt went international. Joe Patterson was a good hater. His hatred for Roosevelt became almost pathological; and anything went, from cracks about Roosevelt's lameness to Poison Penman John O'Donnell's leers at Roosevelt's Jewish advisers. New York City's millions continued to return landslide votes for Roosevelt-and to read the Daily News...
...Poison Press. But when really aroused, he scribbles counterdenunciations, buys big newspaper ads to blast his tormentors. Chief target of Crump's vituperative essays is a pudgy outlander, Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. One anti-Evans masterpiece contained the following observations...
...Chick & the Egg. What Ernest Goodpasture has done is to devise a means of propagating large quantities of pure virus-the poison (uncontaminated by bacteria) which produces disease. Scientists had never been able to get enough pure virus for their experiments because viruses, unlike bacteria, demand live tissue; they will not multiply in artificial culture media...
...symptoms: a circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...
...Since December, he said, he and two fellow scholars had been examining the Duchess' mummified body. Their verdict was death from natural causes-meningeal encephalitis, aggravated by tuberculosis, as evidenced by a tubercular lesion in the right lung and a spinal curvature. The experts reported no traces of poison...