Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That Special Poison. As the Deputies reassembled to decide Faure's fate, General Adolphe Aumeran, spokesman for Algeria's bitterest diehards, said cavernously: "The fall of the Cabinet would only have happy consequences." But most Deputies were in a chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute...
When Faure rose for a final appeal, he scarcely mentioned the Algerian program. Instead, he pleaded with his colleagues not to let "their vision [be] clouded by that special poison of our political life which makes every ministry seem odd if it lasts longer than six months." He concluded: "If your verdict is unfavorable to me, I shall accept it without bitterness; the responsibilities of power are heavy, very heavy . . . If I have not yielded to weariness, if I fight to the end, it is because I think it is my duty to do so; it is because I believe...
...other ex-prisoner was Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, who was held for interrogation for three years in Moscow before being sent to a P.W. camp. The Führer and Eva, said Linge. "were alone in one of the bunker rooms. Eva Braun took poison. Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead...
Soul force, a made-in-India device for nonviolent resistance to authority, is a dangerous weapon which, like poison gas, can blow back in the faces of those who use it. Last week India's Prime Minister Nehru decided that India had been soul-forced enough for the time being. Reliance on soul force, or satyagraha, had resulted in 22 deaths on the border of Goa, but it had neither led the Portuguese to give up their tiny 400-year-old colony, nor bestirred the Goans to do anything about their own liberation...
...that a famed New Orleans surgeon, Dr. Alton Ochsner, joined the ranks of those opposing fluoridation of public water supplies, I wish to take issue that "these ranks are filled mainly with crackpots." When countless numbers of reputable physicians, dentists and scientists also oppose the adding of a powerful poison (even in small concentration) to our drinking water, the name-calling by the promoters of this highly controversial plan would seem to be extremely out of order...