Word: poisoned
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...afternoon of the 29th was devoted to the final preparations for death. Hitler ordered that his favorite Alsatian wolf dog Blondi be poisoned; the other two dogs were shot. He gave capsules of poison to his two secretaries, presuming that they would want, as part of their jobs, to join in the imminent suicides (they did not). At 3:30 p.m. on April 30, Hitler and his new wife retired to the anteroom of his private suite and shut the door. Hitler put a cyanide pill between his teeth, then raised a Walther pistol to his temple and fired...
...city. During the long interval before the general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered one of the bunker's doctors to inject sedatives into his six children, who had taken refuge with him in the bunker, then they were given poison. Goebbels' wife Magda bit on a cyanide pill, and Goebbels shot her in the back of the head. Then, just like Hitler, he raised his pistol to his own temple and fired...
...already bought 13% of Unocal, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company. The Pickens group is now seeking to acquire a majority of the company's stock by offering to purchase it at $54 a share. But Unocal has countered with a new variation of what Wall Street calls the poison-pill defense, in which a target company assumes a heavy debt burden to make itself unpalatable to corporate raiders. In this instance, Unocal said that if Pickens succeeded in buying 50.1% or more of its shares, the company would offer to buy the rest of the stock...
Wall Streeters expect Pickens to challenge Unocal's move in court and perhaps bid for 100% of the company. Meanwhile, Pickens admits, "we are back at the drawing board." Or maybe at the medicine cabinet, seeking an antidote for a poison pill...
...bulldozers, the fire fighters try to create firebreaks as wide as 100 ft. to isolate the flames. Wearing goggles, hard hats and nonflammable shirts, they may work shifts that last more than 24 hours. Thus far, 228 have been injured on the lines from heat exhaustion, burns and poison...