Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...award for the year's best actress. Whether she wins or not, hers is certainly the only new face -and the most exciting-among the nominees.-Says Simone: "It's pleasant to have sympathetic roles and be popular. I've begun to drink the subtle poison...
...guards and materials. Himmler suggested using more dogs to herd the prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when the camp gassed and cremated "rather more than 9,000" in a 24-hour period...
...before that in 1860-62, they said, the rats came. Assam's bureaucrats dismissed such prophecies as superstition. But the prophecies have come true: thousands of rats have left the jungle, attacked the clearings, and stripped everything bare. Too late, the state government sent in rat poison; what was not "lost in transit" fell into the hands of profiteers. Result: the entire 1959 rice crop was a failure. With granaries fast emptying, four-fifths of the district's 250,000 population were reported on the edge of starvation...
Lovely ladies, indeed, but heaven help the poor man who falls into their clutches. His fate may well be death-or worse than death. The landlady, for instance, likes to poison her boarders, the better to practice taxidermy, while Mrs. Foster calmly ignores her husband's cries and leaves him to die in a stalled elevator...
Searching for the royal tree, sarongclad Laotians, silver-bedecked Meo tribesmen, naked Kha with blowpipes and poison darts move like shadows through the jungle. Black, White and Red Thai pad over the hills and into the deep valleys. "No one is forced to search, but all do," says the Minister of Cults. "By so doing they gain merit in the eyes of Buddha...