Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy planes drop poison gas bombs on Cambridge and the University, there are no preparations as yet to counteract them, according to George F. Hooker, Cambridge City Engineer in charge of sanitation. Decontamination squads play an important part in the air raid defense of a city, Hooker said, but the Civilian Defense Committee to date has felt that protection against incendiaries was more important...
...admitted losses, in general ("We have most certainly suffered losses . . . and we shall suffer more. . . . We Americans have been compelled to yield ground, but we will regain it") and-to correct "rumormongers" and "poison peddlers" for "damnable misstatements," gave the final score on Pearl Harbor in particular: killed, 2,340; wounded, 946. "Of all the combatant ships based on Pearl Harbor," added the President, "only three were permanently put out of commission...
Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Zweig turned from casual globe-trotting to literature after World War I, wrote prolifically, smoothly, successfully in many forms. His books banned by the Nazis, he fled to Britain in 1938 with the arrival of German troops, became a British subject in 1940, moved to the U.S. the same year, to Brazil the next. He was never outspoken against Naziism, believed artists and writers should be independent...
Propaganda for home consumption may be intended as a stimulant, a sedative or a cathartic. For enemies it should be poison. Either way, German propaganda works less well than it used to. The German people are tired of constant medication, and the non-Axis world is learning to reject poison, acquiring immunity to what is absorbed inadvertently. But the Axis poisoners were trying harder than ever, and enlightened immunologists issued warnings...
Sweet Clover. The remarkable drug known as dicoumarin may even reduce to zero the 6% of post-operative deaths caused by thrombi (fixed blood clots) and emboli (wandering blood clots). Dicoumarin is found in spoiled sweet clover, was originally tracked down as a poison which causes hemorrhages in cows, is now synthesized...