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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether all these settlements would decrease the anti-American poison spread by the captive Cairo press or broadcast by Cairo propaganda stations remains to be seen. At the moment Nasser was off to Moscow-to be guest of honor at the May Day parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: Paying for the Canal | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...rabies spread over Brazil, the government tried desperate countermeasures. It set up 15 centers to produce rabies vaccine, but immunity given by it wore off in a few months. Specially trained bat-killers attacked the bats' home caves with flamethrowers, dynamite and poison gas. They chopped down hollow trees where the bats shelter, but still bat rabies spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death on Leathery Wings | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...with a love surpassing that of friendship." Their ardent relationship was only intensified by the fact that male admirers fairly swarmed around both of them-readily swooning when the "dazzling Juliette" draped her graceful neck around a harp and plucked a few plangent twangs, readily reaching for underdoses of poison when frustrated amour demanded the appearances ol a tragic exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Juno & the Peacock | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...little Dickens, has a go at mah-jongg with Merula-he is "mad for the game." Weekends he stuffs his pockets with patented French fuzees and stalks about the Guinness acres (there are ten of them) waging chemical warfare on the moles. Last week, as he jabbed a poison capsule into the ground with the point of a stout stick, he cocked a fiendish eyebrow and remarked: "I feel beastly, but one of us has to go." And then back to the house to work on a script about Father Damien's leper colony-he wrote most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Least Likely to Succeed | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...unhappily discovered the identity of the costly "commuters" pictured in its annual report. Names: Boston and Maine's President Patrick B. McGinnis-who was dumped as New Haven president after a 1956 commuter revolt against late trains-his wife, and the New Haven's chief engineer, Pete Poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Still Sliding | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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