Word: poisoner
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...fairly humming with homicidal ingenuity. One Chicago student got a long letter from the Bursar's Office, discussing his tuition payments, didn't realize that he had been trapped until the last paragraph: "By the way, you have just been handling paper impregnated with contact poison-phenyl-hydrazine substitution products. This poison should by now be spreading through your system and you will lie groaning on the floor. This is your hunter speaking. You are now dead...
...Relations with Peking, he allowed, "unfortunately remain unsatisfactory," but Russia is still willing to meet "at any moment with the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party." Brezhnev trotted out routine Soviet attacks on "U.S. aggression" in Viet Nam, with "more than 200,000 U.S. troops, aircraft carriers, huge bombers, poison gases and napalm." He promised continued aid to North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong, and was rewarded-doubtless to Peking's chagrin-with warm speeches from Hanoi Party Secretary Le Duan and the Viet Cong's female representative, Nguyen Thi Binh, who praised the Russians...
...Poison. Berlin had become virtually a city without men. Out of a civilian population of about 2,700,000-less than two-thirds of what it had been when the war began-roughly 2,000,000 were women. Small wonder that the fear of sexual attack raced through the city like a plague. Nazi propaganda had long painted Soviet troops as slant-eyed Mongols who butchered women and children on sight, raped nuns and burned clergymen to death with flamethrowers. As a result, doctors were besieged by patients seeking information about the quickest way to commit suicide, and poison...
Aspirin has long been the most common cause of the 600,000 accidental poisonings each year among children who raid the medicine chest. It still is, but it now has an unexpected and fast-closing runner-up: oral contraceptives, or "the pills." At some big-city poison-control centers, the pills are being listed in about 25% of childhood poisonings, as against 33% for aspirin...
Only when we drink poison are we well-We want, this fire so burns our brain tissue...