Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Man's Poison. In Evreux, France, Prisoner Pierre Hennocque, having failed at hanging himself, tried to stuff himself to death by swallowing two can openers, a poker broken into ten-pieces, five four-inch nails, an assortment of screws, nuts & bolts, some curtain rings and a shattered wine glass-failed again...
SEVEN INDIAN PLAYERS OVERCOME BY POISON ON EVE OF BIG GAME...
Good Will Lost? Cried New York's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "It is easier to summon us to a holy war against Russia than to solve the problems involved in establishing economic justice and world order. ... An ideology cannot be suffocated by poison gas nor demolished by atom bombs. Ideas are conquered by better ideas whose truth has been revealed in practices that enrich personality...
...Among items decontrolled: flour, bread, peas, beans, canned goods, textiles, leather, clothing, lumber, farm implements, nails, wire, gopher poison. Among the few still controlled: meat, rents, sugar, soap...
...bourgeois soul so hankered.") That day in the Chancellery canteen, where the soldiers and orderlies took their meals, there was a dance. Word went up from the Führerbunker to make less noise. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, he by shooting, she with poison; their bodies were carried outside to the garden and burned. It was a horse-opera Liebestod, enacted to the crash of Russian shells and robbed of its Wagnerian grandeur by a curious anticlimax: those remaining in the bunker lit up cigarets. "During Hitler's lifetime that had been absolutely...