Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite their shortages, the Dutch public will not tolerate a black market, though there is some illegal traffic in cigarets (the legal weekly ration is 40). Dealers in the "poison market," as it is labeled by the Government, are sent to Veenhuizen prison to make shoes, one of Holland's scarcest commodities...
...When the trend pointed to Roxas, the Philippine Press, a Manila tabloid, printed a boldface column recalling that Jose Vera, Osmena's campaign manager, had threatened suicide if his candidate lost. The paper called on Vera to make good, suggested poison, a hand grenade, or a banzai charge on Roxas headquarters. Weaseled Vera: "I said 'I'll bet my life Osmena will win!' I never said I would commit suicide...
Then U.S. officers discovered that the epidemic had been caused by arsenic which had been smeared on the prisoners' bread rations with a brush. Six arsenic bottles (two of them empty) were found under the floor of the local bakery. First theory was that the poison was being used to exterminate cockroaches. But further investigation showed that the unknown poisoner was not after ordinary vermin. His aim, announced U.S. counterintelligence, was to kill the camp's inmates-some...
...permission of the copyright owner, Chappell & Co., Ltd. *An A.P.H. anecdote: Once, when Lady Astor scolded a crapulous and corpulent M.P. for "pouring that awful poison into your stomach," he replied: "Madam, I have been drinking this stuff for many years, and I would be glad to put my stomach against yours...
...Trotsky's version, Stalin emerges as a man of inspired mediocrity, perfidy and political depravity. Trotsky's most sensational (and newest) charge: Stalin probably hastened the dying Lenin's death by administering poison. More routine charges: Stalin is a traitor to the revolution and to Communism because 1) he seized control of the Bolshevik Party machine and substituted ward politics for the inspired dynamics of proletarian revolution; 2) he turned the dictatorship of the proletariat into a totalitarian state; 3) he declared himself Lenin's heir and best disciple though Lenin, before his death, had broken...