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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death or injury by poison gas is horrible. But it is also horrible to have a leg or face blown away by a high-explosive shell, to be buried alive by a bomb, to be instantly charred by the machine-gun-melting heat of a flamethrower, or to be impaled by a bayonet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Should the U.S. Use Gas? | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...debate touched off by the editorial shocker pointed up one of the great areas of American ignorance about war. Americans are rightly opposed to the use of poison gas by U.S. troops - but for the wrong reasons. The U.S. imagination has been fed by lurid writings of super-scientists and pacifist writers, picturing a "dew of death" which would wipe out whole cities overnight. Real scientists scoff at any such invention. Gases today are basically the same as in World War I. The real reason for not using gas is not that it is inhumane or immoral, but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Should the U.S. Use Gas? | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival leaders of the pack, potential fathers of future generations. The bodies were beyond postmortem; there was no way of proving that it was an Axis poison plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apes of the Rock | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...Literary Rangers, they hinted they would do, attacked with a poison in the form of a colloidal suspension carried in an alcoholic medium. It has a faint odor of mustard gas; but that characteristic odor is masked by a heavy scent of Chanel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poon Prepares for Winter; Dons Warm Coat of Paint | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

...asking every lonely Government girl how her complex is today." But Government employes have learned to consult psychiatrists before everything turns black. "A girl who can't find a satisfactory place to live or who can't find a date is now advised before she reaches the poison-taking stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Deal | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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