Word: poisoner
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...Poison for the Hero. Young's picture of Rommel is that of a great commander and a simple, unsophisticated man who blindly followed his Führer until, belatedly, he saw him taking Germany to ruin. Near the end, Rommel entered a plot to overthrow Hitler but, according to Young's sources, never joined in the July 1944 plot on Hitler's life. Rommel did buck his chief on the strategy for countering the invasion, and finally advised...
...visions of themselves as Central Intelligence men--the kind that sip cognacs in little Bulgarian cafes. The thought of agents around the College infecting piles of dirty laundry with wire recorders is terrifying. From this it is only a short step to Steve Roper buttonhole-cameras, boutonnieres that squirt poison, and two-way wrist radios...
...trouble with DDT is that insects get used to it, develop hardy strains that resist the poison. Another trouble is that DDT kills both injurious insects and their natural enemies. In some cases, long-continued spraying with DDT has caused insect plagues by killing "good" bugs (e.g., insects' parasites) and leaving the bad bugs alive...
...Resist America" propaganda and mobilization mounted in clamor and fury. In Nanking a U.S. missionary teacher was publicly humiliated. In Shanghai, U.S. movies were branded as "spiritual poison." In Canton a doctors' rally pledged a boycott of U.S. medicines. Everywhere students were recruited for military service. Peking's Current Affairs Journal instructed the faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that...
...required him to drill a hole in an electrode made of beryllium oxide. Out of the hole a fine dust rose, and 29-year-old Gardner inhaled it. He did not know, nor did anyone know at the time, that the beryllium in the dust was a slow, implacable poison...