Word: poisoner
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...POISON OAK (leaves): skin irritation...
...PRESS POISON. Do not swallow!" was a leftist poster slogan in the May 1968 French uprising. We Americans could well heed this warning. Newspaper owners and Voice of America broadcasters love to brag about this country's free, objective press. Meanwhile, news management--a genteel euphemism for lying--is often the order...
World War II found Christie again practicing pharmacy and brushing up on the latest lethal drugs. Poison was a preferred method of dispatching a victim-frequently "in quiet family surroundings." She continued to publish one or two novels a year, often plotting them in a hot bath while eating apples. There was scarcely a time when her work was not before the public, not only on book jackets but in the credits of such stage and film works as Witness for the Prosecution and Ten Little Indians...
...singer. In 1955, he launched the bestselling Ballad of Davy Crockett. Meanwhile, Susan was growing up as a second-generation soap actress in Los Angeles. Her mother, Elizabeth Harrower, was a veteran of dozens of radio serials. Susan played a villain on Lassie, trying to poison the popular collie. Recalls Susan: "A few boys threatened to beat me up." Later she graduated to small parts in soaps, but her career was stalled by the politicization of her love life. She was dating a right-wing newscaster and campaigning hard for Barry Goldwater. "I was suddenly controversial and found it hard...
...slop, labeled "Poison for the Government," was then poured in tobacco tins and left to stew in the sun. Russell's daughter Kate says that the game was one of her father's ways of teaching his children that everything the government did was "completely misguided if not deliberately wicked." The game also indicates the degree of pleasure -both principled and perverse-that Russell derived from his nearly lifelong role as the loyal opposition to all forms of authority...