Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money. Dr. George L.. Clark, head of the division of analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois, reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale...
...pride, self-interest and jealousy, in short by unbridled nationalism. He conceded that nationalism could also be a matter of enlightened self-interest, patriotism, independence, other good things. But when sovereignty became a fetish, he thought, it produced more evil than good. Nationalism, he decided, was the poison that had killed peace...
...Poison. From Geneva, where he had settled with his wife and three children, Pierre, Jeanne and Colette, Streit watched the collapse of Wilson's dream of world peace. Now disillusioned, he watched as the League gagged over the march of the Japs into Manchuria in 1931, as the 1932 Disarmament Conference ended in a fiasco, as the London Economic Conference wheezingly expired. He listened as the hot winds of Naziism roared through Germany. The underlying theme of the history which he reported in long, earnest dispatches to the Times was always the same-the disunity and ineffectiveness...
Last week, after a successful trip to the West Coast, Shearing was at Manhattan's Strand Theatre for his first big-theater appearance. What jazz fans heard was a far cry from the feverishly disorganized, shrilly dissonant music that had made bop box-office poison in a lot of places. Shearing's music was sherbet-cold. Backed by a vibraphone, electric guitar, bass and drums, he played his piano as though he were tapping on tuned icicles...
...small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability are not poison; but they can, and frequently do, so dilute the grace of God as to render it almost powerless...