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Word: poisonings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hot Weather Story | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Road to Avranches | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Taped to Ribbentrop's groin was a phial of poison like the one Heinrich Himmler had carried and used. Ribbentrop gave his up, unused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Herr Brickendrop | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How the Nazis Did It | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...ravaged-faced man bent on suicide, determinedly sipping his poison through a soda straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: G.I. Sketchbook | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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