Word: poisoner
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...University of Pennsylvania, loser of only three of its last 44 Ivy League football games, "is being shunned like the poison itch by other Ivy League colleges . . . Cornell is the only Ivy institution that has not omitted the Red and Blue powerhouse from its 1953 card." One reason for Penn's success: state legislators, with an eye for a good football team, make 675 scholarship nominations a year...
...Raven," which shares the bill, is a French mystery about a poison-pen campaign that sets a small French village into turmoil. It contains glimpses of some of the nastiest people ever assembled on one movie lot, and that includes the hero, Dr. German, who is played by Pierre Fresnay. The movie's favorite acting device is the pregnant pause, which is woefully overworked. Moviegoers who have seen "The Thirteenth Letter" will find that it is the same movie, scene for scene. They will also find that the American version is just as convincingly acted and considerably easier...
Such a Finance Minister was poison to politicos. Bosch all but stopped the gravy train that had shuttled in & out of the Treasury since the republic's birth.*Outraged Congressmen got up all kinds of investigating committees to harry him. They quizzed him in practically every field of government finance, sometimes till 3 in the morning. A fortnight ago they summoned him for more heckling on his plan for reorganizing a rundown government workers' retirement fund. Bosch testily told them he had a previous engagement, went off to a Bacardi board meeting at which he was elected company...
...soon afterward, the doctor, the lawyer and eight witnesses went into a snow-covered country cemetery to dig up the woman's body. The young doctor's autopsy, performed in a nearby shed, proved to the court that death had been caused by drowning and not by poison. The lawyer's client was acquitted. "All at once," says Dr. Gradwohl now, "it struck me with great force how much could depend on the proper scientific inquiry into the cause of sudden death." Last week, Dr. Gradwohl made the same point in Chicago in a speech marking...
...Korea, the Japanese clapped her in jail as a spy, but let her go after a small fine. Four years later, as a reporter for N.E.A., she covered the Sino-Japanese war and scored a worldwide beat with her pictures and eyewitness account of the Japanese use of poison gas in the battle of Ichang...