Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME has certainly reached a new low. The article on Eva Peron is the devil's own broth of poison and vituperation...
...didn't. Wary Democratic officeholders avoided Fresno last week as though it were a poison-ivy patch. Henry Wallace himself was too cagey to send greetings. Among the 300-odd delegates who did show up, Kenny whipped up enough enthusiasm to start Wallace organizations going in 16 of the state's 23 congressional districts. The organizations would probably collect enough signatures to land a Wallace delegation on the ballot...
...Yellowstone's west gate, all the Deweys smiled broadly, signed autographs, paid their bus fare ($34.50 apiece) and started off for Old Faithful. Mrs. Dewey, recovering from a violent case of poison oak she had picked up in her home town of Sapulpa, Okla., seemed to be showing some strain. They had their picture taken beside the Jet Geyser, were disappointed by the poor catches being made by stream fishermen, but cheered up when they saw a bear amble out of a stand of dead spruce. Everybody stayed in the bus. The Governor had been warned that the bears...
...Delhi, India, a 21-year-old U.S. merchant seaman named Pat Wellington walked right up to Mohandas K. Gandhi and asked: "Mr. Gandhi, what's all this trouble about over here?" Replied Gandhi: "It's the same disease that is affecting the whole world. I call it poison." Pat: "It seems to be worse in India." Gandhi: "Is it? I don't think [so]. . . . Perhaps life is now more secure in India than in the rest of the world." The Mississippi sailor came away impressed. Said he: "Bilbo always sent word that he was too busy...
Plants occasionally do the analyzing themselves. Many dissolved minerals are poison to some plants and healthy food to others. A certain wild pansy (Viola calaminaria, et zinci) thrives on the waste dumps of zinc mines where little else can survive. The presence of other plants points to copper, lead or petroleum...