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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The General Rose at Dawn | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollees in Alcoholism Course to Study 'Benders, Binges, and Bats' | 10/18/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Excursion | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope for the Greying | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death Sand | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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