Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world's oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition. There, though its poison kills 200 victims per year, its flesh sends gourmets into philosophical ecstasies. They get a particular kick from knowing they are playing a kind of gustatory Russian roulette...
...fugu has drawn additional attention by its long-defiant challenge to the chemists' skill. Its poison, tetrodotoxin, has proved almost impossible to isolate or identify. But Japanese science has finally turned the trick. For establishing the molecular structure of tetrodotoxin, Professors Kyosuke Tsuda of Tokyo University, Yoshimasa Hirata of Nagoya University, Isamu Nitta of Kwansei Gakuin University, and Akira Yokoo of Okayama University have just won the prestigious Asahi prize...
...platters in flower or bird patterns. Japanese, who pay $8 for two ounces of tiger fugu sashimi, eat it with almost religious ceremony and little or no risk. The sashimi is cut from the back flesh of the fugu, which is nonpoisonous* unless it has been carelessly contaminated with poison from other parts...
...power, the poison exists in very small amounts, and its molecule is so delicate that it falls to pieces when chemically molested. Generations of chemists managed to make stronger and stronger concentrations of tetrodotoxin, and in 1949 Professor Akira Yokoo isolated the poison in pure crystalline form. But still the molecular formula defied investigation...
...Louis' army. His mother was the niece of Cardinal Mazarin, who was Italian but lived at Versailles as the Sun King's chief minister. She was also Louis' first love and first lady of his court until he exiled her on suspicion of trying to poison him (people changed sides very fast in love as well as war in those days). Eugen stayed on in Paris for three years, leaving only after his petition to join the French army was turned down by Louis himself...