Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Base he barely nodded to photographers. In Hawaii the next morning, Admiral Arthur W. Radford's pretty wife welcomed him according to island custom; when she put a lei around his neck and kissed his cheek, he reddened, took off the floral offering as if it were poison...
...course is neither for wets nor drys," he adds. "Obviously, if you don't drink, you don't become alcoholic. But 60 percent of adults are social drinkers, a Gallup poll shows. The public needs to know that one man's drink is another's poison...
...with food, wine, stockings, towels, lipsticks and medical supplies. Yugoslav housewives exhausted the supply of brooms in a matter of minutes. In a sidewalk cafe, one elderly Yugoslav said: "This is the first real coffee I have had in three years. I must drink it slowly, or it will poison...
...enough copper into their systems. For such cases he would like to see careful medical testing of a diet containing copper-rich items like liver and seafood. But no one, however grey, should try taking his copper straight. In any but the smallest amounts, copper is a cumulative poison...
Thirring does not mention the difficulties of manufacturing and spreading the poison. He only suggests that it be mixed with powdered sand. This "death sand" (containing .05% of radioactive material) would be applied at a rate of 12 milligrams (1/2500 oz.) per square meter and would be entirely invisible. Less than a ton of death sand, evenly distributed, would make Manhattan a deathtrap...