Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that lit up like a torch the mood of many Viennese. A middle-aged Vienna woman said to him wearily: "I suppose it will be impossible for even America to send us all the food we need to survive. But the least the Allies can do is to distribute poison to those who want it. Now we don't even have any way to commit suicide. You will see when the gas is turned on again how many of us will kill ourselves before we starve to death...
...rash like poison ivy from such tropical trees as the papaya. This usually lasts only two weeks...
Britons were confronted with a seemingly unsolvable problem last week - what to do with vast stocks of poison gas piled up - and unused - in World...
Through experiments performed on animals D.D.T. is known to be a nerve poison easily absorbed through the skin. Used with discretion, it is not dangerous...
...were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about it to justify the investment...