Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simoom, the hot, dry Poison Wind of Arabia, whole parties of men sometimes perish together. Nature thinks that perhaps they lose so much water by sweating (up to two quarts an hour) in the dry air that they lose the ability to sweat and their bodies become defenseless against the heat...
...after hour, for a party of U.S. Third Army officers with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died on the way to an airfield near Metz...
Taped to Ribbentrop's groin was a phial of poison like the one Heinrich Himmler had carried and used. Ribbentrop gave his up, unused...
Result: Belgian pupils now find old classroom procedures dull. To counteract Nazi poison, M. Buisseret last week applied to a United Nations education commission in London for advice on replacing Belgium's old system with one as good as the Nazis...
...ravaged-faced man bent on suicide, determinedly sipping his poison through a soda straw...