Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system contains 80 gal lons, weighing more than 600 Ibs. Pilgrim is sure that this prohibitive weight can be reduced drastically, but he has other problems besides. Algae are delicate; they sometimes sicken, turn yellow, and die. They may fall prey to bacteria and other microscopic enemies. They may poison themselves with their own wastes...
...Fluoride is a poison," said Rosenberger in speeches. Bunker noted darkly that the Daily Worker had supported fluoridation, and insisted: "This is not a question on which any group has a right to vote. No group has a right to force taxpayers to take medicine not recommended by their own doctor." Anti-fluoridation groups in other states helpfully flooded Massachusetts with leaflets implying that fluoridation causes cancer and brittle bones and hinting that its proponents are acting on orders from Moscow to soften American brains. Throughout the campaign Rosenberger kept in close telephone contact with Seattle Radiologist Frederick...
...Eskimo scouts in the tundra. Another outfit was learning to handle explosives at the U.S. Navy's underwater demolition school in the Virgin Islands. In the Philippines, another detachment on maneuvers against the 2nd Airborne Battle Group of the 503rd Infantry, slipped through the jungle lines, dropped imitation poison in the drinking water, captured trucks, and otherwise raised sufficient havoc to delay the "advance...
...Inside, work is progressing on a bulletproof glass and plastic cage in which Adolf Eichmann will sit when he goes on trial. The cage, declare the Israelis, is both to shield Eichmann from assassination by an enraged spectator and to prevent a sympathizer from slipping him a vial of poison such as allowed Hermann Göring to escape the hangman's noose during the Nürnberg War Crimes trials after World...
...based on the Hebrew tradition of the Lamed-Vov, the Just man. According to this legend, "the world reposes upon thirty-six Just Men, indistinguishable from simple mortals; often they are unaware of their situation. But if just one of them were lacking, the sufferings of mankind would poison even the souls of the newborn... For the Lamed-Vov are the hearts of the world multiplied, and into them, as into one receptacle, pour all our griefs." The descendents of Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, martyred in 1185, are granted the grace of one Lamed-Vov in every generation, and Ernie...