Word: poisoner
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Contaminating Policy. The U.S. delegates came home sputtering with indignation. What if other small nations took the same stand? The result, U.S. airlines hold, would be poison to U.S. world-girdling ambitions. In the case of countries like India, which has already spoken in favor of the 50-50 idea, the poison would be deadly: her airlines are still fledglings. While U.S. aviation looked on apprehensively, the State Department was trying to ease the tension. Hand-picked missionaries have left or are about to leave to do some top level, pre-treaty softening-up in China, India, Brazil (Newfoundland...
...experts had yet to come back from Bikini; their studies had still to be tallied. But what they had learned was summed up last week in the heartfelt comment of Admiral William H. P. Blandy: "It's a poison weapon." He could have gone farther. The atomic age will be an age of poison. Even the peaceful use of atomic power will generate deadly rays and radioactive particles. How to guard against them is the first problem of the atomic...
...look into the suspicious activities of a German-controlled cartel. They barely have time to discover their love for each other when patriotism intervenes and demands that Ingrid marry Boss Nazi Claude Rains. Marriage lands her right into a Nazi nest and the threat of slow poison in her morning coffee. If anyone in the audience is not sitting up in his theater chair by this time he is Hitchcock-proof...
Another triumph: production and isolation in pure crystalline form of the most deadly biological poison known to man, the toxin secreted by Clostridium botulinum, type A, bacteria which sometimes grow in home-canned vegetables...
Bedelia allows Margaret Lockwood to poison three husbands for their insurance and then commit suicide when her fourth begins to get the idea. Suicide, in the U.S., is a sloppy out for wrongdoers. A tidy U.S. ending will hand the murderess over to the cops...