Word: poisoner
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...duMont blanched, tried to speak but could not. Her lips turned blue. Minutes later she was dead. A few doors away, at almost the same time, Gordon M. McMullin, 53, died in the same way. Quick autopsies showed that both patients had been dosed with sodium nitrite, a powerful poison used as a hospital cleansing agent, instead of sodium phosphate, a mild cathartic. Shocked hospital authorities refused to explain the matter until they had made an investigation, but the district attorney's office, opening a full-scale inquiry, indicated that an employee of the hospital pharmacy had been temporarily...
...Poison. Music U.S.A. has only a handful of taboos: no "physically suggestive" lyrics; nothing that might be racially offensive (Conover never identifies his Negro performers as such), and absolutely no rock 'n' roll. Says Conover: "I see no reason to poison the ears of overseas listeners...
When a passive model is being tested, the air in the tunnel is sent around a circuit and used repeatedly, but jet engines or ram-jets poison the air with their exhaust gases. New air must be taken from the atmosphere, and its excess moisture eliminated. So the tunnel is provided with a monstrous air dryer stocked with 1,890 tons of activated alumina, which soaks up 1.5 tons (ten bathtubs) of water per minute. On a muggy day the alumina has to be dried out after two hours, and this takes enough gas burners to keep the whole city...
...come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from Maine to Minnesota are now being transformed into marketable products. On the horizon: hybrid trees that will reach marketable age faster-and yield much more lumber...
...events of his time and to other people. Man, says Simone, is free, but his freedom to choose will surely lead him to destruction if he retreats before the come-and-go of his time. Heroine Anne sees all this just in time. She puts away her poison vial and determines to be useful to her family and friends. The last words of the book are hers, and they are about as optimistic as a careful existentialist novelist ever lets a heroine become: "Who knows? Perhaps one day I'll be happy again. Who knows...