Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deadly is a curie? Thirring starts with the assumption that 2,000 roentgens (the unit of radiation) will kill a man. After considering many factors, he concludes that a radioactive poison spread over the ground at the rate of two curies per square meter would give a man eight roentgens of radiation per hour. In about ten days this would build up to the lethal dose of 2,000 roentgens. The period of grace, thinks Ridenour, makes radiological poison a rather humane weapon. The inhabitants of a contaminated city could save their lives if they set out promptly...
Magic & Mandolins. Country boys stared at the sleazy magic of television; city Scouts complained to 34 aid stations of bumps, sprains and poison ivy. To Louisiana Scouts, the British served tea. Other Southerners saw a kilted Scot amiably explaining cricket to a khaki-clad young Negro. Austrians made music with mandolins; bagpipes whined shrilly from a pup tent...
...runs a silken "telephone line" to her nearby lair, and waits for prey. The slightest vibration of the web brings her out on the run. If the victim is a fly or some other small and harmless insect, she drinks its blood on the spot, or paralyzes it with poison from her fangs and takes it to her lair to be kept in storage. If the catch is a big, vigorous, dangerous intruder (a honeybee or a grasshopper), the spider turns her back and squirts out silk in a broad band from all her 600 spinnerets. Only when the victim...
...begun looking for bargains again) would disregard them all. If he lived in the country he would head for a big city-despite the heat, the crowds and the stench of exhaust fumes. If he lived in a city he would head straight for mosquitoes, poison ivy and a bull that wanted to gore Junior. He would travel by car, visit a national park if he could, and a relative if he couldn't avoid it, and almost always he would drive clockwise around a circular or elliptical route...
...Harry Popkln; United Artists) is a tricky quickie that takes its title from the standard police abbreviation meaning "dead on arrival." Its hero (Edmond O'Brien) wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably dying of poison. In the few days before the poison takes its final effect, he rushes about to find his murderer. Nothing about his hunt through a crowded gallery of suspects is nearly as intriguing as the idea that motivates it. Though much of the film has been shot against teeming backgrounds in San Francisco and Los Angeles, D. 0. A. illustrates that nothing...