Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prompt and profuse was the rebuttal, made in many letters to the Times and in an article, Hate Is Moral Poison, by Dr. WT. Russell Bowie, longtime pacifist of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Wrote...
Lewis, a jolly, articulate man in his prime, retired as the head of Northwestern University's chemistry department in 1924. To the last he predicted that Germany would use gas when it finally got into a hopeless situation. Said he: "Poison gas has lost two of its sources of value-the element of surprise and the element of use against defenseless troops...
...flabbergasted Long Island family. One of the Slavs is soulful, one is sexy, one is earthy; all are broke and ebullient. When not badgering their host to angel a play, they jabber about the beauty of silence, emote about love and art and nothing at all, quite happily drink poison. The poison turns out to be peach brandy...
...destroyed in their youth before they gang up and get off the ground. So observers watch their breeding spots. Since last February R.A.F. pilots patrolling the Red Sea have watched for locust swarms as well as enemy aircraft. First step is to destroy the egg emplacements, then spread poison weak enough to leave cattle unharmed, but strong enough to stop the thunderous gnashing of the feeding insects...
...soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded by Nazi beatings and killings, finally strike back under Leader Eric Toreson (Paul Muni), who says: "We must learn to be gangsters, thugs, useful with knife, sandbag, dynamite, noose, club and poison...