Word: poisoner
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With each retreat, also, the poison of defeat will spread. Especially vulnerable will be the Balkans, wrhere the heavy thud of approaching Russian sapogi (boots) might well set off explosive anti-German sentiment. The German command knows well the dangers implicit in these airline distances from the Eastern front: to the Ploesti oil fields, 530 miles; to the old Polish frontier, 95 miles; to Germany proper, 475 miles...
Until last week the Yanks were10-to-6 betting favorites, despite the Cardinals' better record. The Cardinals won their pennant seven days earlier, their batting average tops the Yankees' by 23 points, their pitching staff has plenty of lefthanders, who are poison to Yankee batsmen. But winning World Series* is a Yankee tradition, they have better pitching reserves, and the first three games are in New York, a distinct psychological advantage. Last week, as the Yanks wearily ground out the pennant-cinching run, the odds sloughed downwards. By the time Spud Chandler hurls the opening ball, the betting...
Robert Donat plays a British chemist who undertakes a secret, suicidally difficult mission to Rumania. His orders: to get a job in a Nazi plant which is manufacturing the most destructive poison gas in history. He must also learn the formula and destroy the plant in time to avert the use of the gas against Britain...
Army & Navy authorities have gone after the rats with traps, poison and sanitation control in the village. In addition, hunters have been forbidden to shoot such valued rat killers as hawks, eagles, owls and foxes. As a final touch, the Army called up part of its K-9 Corps, ordered a dozen specially trained terriers from the States. The Aleutian, official servicemen's publication, announced: "The WOOFS are coming." For the first time in Dutch Harbor's history, the rats were definitely...
...view of the fact that Quartermaster-issued poison has been found to kill an ant just as dead as Engineering-issued poison-and vice versa-request is made that your office draw identical poisons for issue to this office from both Engineering and Quartermaster, and mix same so that there will be no way of knowing which poison killed the ant-the assumption being that no well-bred G.I. ant would eat other than poison issued through proper channels to final destination, which destination being the aforementioned dead or dying...