Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much the same nature. Underground shots are considerably safer. The U.S. has fired about half a dozen small tests in tunnels dug into Nevada mountains. Their radioactivity was well confined, and so far there have been no reports of contaminated ground water, but large underground tests could conceivably poison the water supply of an entire state. For relatively small nuclear devices the U.S. is likely to continue underground tests, but the more powerful sod busters of the future will have to be tested in the open because the earth's crust cannot hold them. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard...
...interested in its fur: the nutria vogue in Britain declined some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap and gun. "There's no trouble catching them," says E. A. Ellis, secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. "The coypu is mentally slow. Once caught he just waits for death, not fighting but moaning...
...going ten years ago when a San Francisco bachelor died of botulism after gourmandizing on a jar of cheese spread. The National Cheese Institute wanted to learn how to prevent such deaths, which are caused by microbes that sometimes get into spreads and make botulin, the deadliest natural poison known. The University of Chicago's Food Research Institute took on the job, assigned Polish-born Microbiologist Nicholas Grecz to work on it. Grecz was led to Limburger because, as early as the 1880s, Limburger-type cheeses had been observed never to cause food poisoning. Nobody knew...
While McCall's and the Ladies' Home Journal, the amazons of the women's-magazine field, traded perfumed poison-pen letters last week over rival circulation claims (TIME, July 28), third-running Good Housekeeping poked fun at both. The Hearst monthly, with a 5,074,816 circulation (v. 6,857,677 for McCall's, 6,838,282 for the Journal), took space in two major newspapers to print a whimsical, seven-column "fable" with a pointed moral...
...history tells of no other queen more gracious and pious than Theodolinda. She was the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, and toward the end of the 6th century she married the powerful Authari, King of the warlike Lombards. Shortly thereafter, in 591, Authari died suddenly, some said by poison. Normally the death of a King would have precipitated a bloody scramble for the throne among local chiefs, with Theodolinda as a sort of door prize. But in the few years she had been Queen, Theodolinda had become so beloved among the Lombards that they insisted that she alone choose...