Word: poisoner
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...poison ivy twines the dorm where
Horse Cave offered the poison to chemical companies, free. There were no takers. Health officers refused to let the poison be poured into an abandoned well or buried in "some no-count piece of land." Someone suggested towing the stuff down the Mississippi and dumping it in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said no, it would kill too many fish...
...seems to have love-hate complex. He thinks the University is the greatest educational institution in the world. But he is convinced that its management has for years "lacked common sense," and made Harvard what he called in an editorial "the focus of infection from which the Communist poison has spread throughout the country...
...first antibiotic ever isolated by Nobel Prizewinner Selman Waksman was actinomycin. And just as Dr. Waksman hoped, the drug made strong medicine. It killed many man-killing microbes; unfortunately, it acted like a mankiller as well. It turned out to be a cytotoxin, a cell poison with the strange selective trick of attacking some cells more than others. So virulent that one milligram could kill a large chicken, actinomycin seemed far too dangerous ever to try on humans. Last week in Rome, pleasantly surprised, Dr. Waksman told the International Congress of Microbiology that German scientists have finally taken the sting...
...first convinced that the transistor was a prodigy. In time, they predicted, it would do anything as well as a vacuum tube. The experts were wrong, says Fink. When the first transistors were built, no one worried about moisture, and moisture has turned out to be a virulent poison. Now the experts are recommending "encapsulation" (a fancy word for careful packaging). Electronic engineers have also discovered that tiny wires break away from germanium crystals for no apparent reason, even when transistors are resting quietly in cotton wool. Worse still, the carefully processed germanium has been known to "turn over...