Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling them how much they had been maligned by the press. Heavily criticized for his jocular references to questionable police practices, he did not back down a bit. "The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs," he said testily. "I suppose they will have to use poison...
...some University officials had arranged appointments between FBI agents and students, and had, in other ways, cooperated with the FBI in campus matters. This is a role a University administrator should never play. It would be especially distasteful now since it would give rise to an inference that could poison the atmosphere of this community--namely that the University agrees with the FBI's position that the peace movement is filled with criminals and conspirators whose every activity must be watched...
...those who would like to pay anything for a chance to give life to himself and others, but that actually "he would never pay more than a reasonable price." It is not enough, for by then he is a successful career man in science (he made poison gas during World War II), and his real life lies stillborn behind...
...state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison...
...children died, local authorities impounded all local milk, and a tragic, but minor, episode seemed closed. It was not; Tijuana's children kept dying for no apparent cause. By week's end 17 youngsters were dead-and more than 300 others had been treated for poisoning at local hospitals. Lab tests turned up traces of a deadly pesticide called parathion in the tissues of victims, and the poison was soon traced to bread from their tables. Tijuana police closed all bakeries and other stores selling bread; sound trucks even warned against eating tortillas. The almost certain source...