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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat her with switches, slashed her with a knife, and poured wax in the wounds. Exiled to his estate in Provence, Sade organized a private harem of both sexes. In a foray to Marseilles with his valet, he beat four streetwalkers and allegedly tried to poison one of them. When the police came to arrest him. they found he had run off to Italy with his wife's young sister. In 1777 he recklessly returned to Paris, where his long-suffering mother-in-law had him seized and confined in Vincennes prison. There, deprived of his pleasures, Sade began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Evil Man | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...their destroyer sank in the early days of World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice seem to have much effect on the brutes. However, neither of these is strong enough. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...schoolteacher to be an infant prodigy. Obsessed with convictions of her own genius, she fiddles madly before audiences of ardent ignoramuses. When at last a tough old professional assures her that she is no good and never will be, Cordelia runs to her bedroom, clutching a bottle of poison. Downstairs, her father's study stands empty. Frayed to the breaking point by the scorn of common-sensical people, father Aubrey has left his wife and family flat and run away like a hunted animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Concerto | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...army out of Poland, he had entered into a new military agreement by which six Soviet divisions would remain in Poland, although their upkeep would in future be paid for by Moscow. His reason: "Safeguarding our security and protecting the sanctity of the Oder-Neisse line." The poison sowed by Stalin was still being harvested by Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Rematch. In Los Angeles, Harvey and Billie Cravaack got divorced, then got married again, later separated following a court session (Harvey claimed he awoke once to find Billie "scratching on my Adam's apple with an icepick," and Billie countered that Harvey had threatened to poison their swimming pool), finally were divorced a second time after Billie testified that Harvey had pulled her from the shower, "dragged me by the hair of my head through the house," tossed her outdoors nude, later pushed her from their car on a freeway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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