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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cross country coach Bill McCurdy received the crowning blow yesterday when Dyke Benjamin, his number two runner, was sent to bed with an acute case of poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runner Sick | 10/17/1957 | See Source »

...hollow dart, built along the lines of a two-stage rocket, which was shot from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like a murder committed by a European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Murder, Foreign Style | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...church. It sends a shoot above the ground, unfolds green leaves in the sunlight, and manufactures its food by photosynthesis like any respectable plant, while still getting its water and minerals from the host's roots. Soon its little red flowers bloom and its myriad dustlike seeds poison the soil around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Red Flower | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...returned to East Germany after World War II. as did his Communist friends Gerhart and Hanns Eisler,* to revile the country that had granted him asylum. "Kantor," as he was called, put out a highbrow Marxist review called Ost und West, and peddled the rest of his poison in the Soviets' German-language newspaper Tägliche Rundschau. The Tägliche Rundschau saluted Kantor, the saturnine lecturer on German literature at East Berlin's Humboldt University, as "a pioneer, a pathfinder of the future German democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Snowbound | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Scratch One. In Philadelphia, after Detective Edward Pushkarwicz got poison ivy investigating a cash and stamp theft from a small post office, he arrested a suspect at home on finding a bottle of poison ivy lotion in the bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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