Word: poisons
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When Stalin died in 1953, he was far gone in paranoia, convinced that a cabal of Jewish doctors was trying to poison him. Only after shooting Stalin's reptilian police chief, Lavrenty Beria, did the Kremlin survivors, notably the new Communist Party Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, try to shift to a new policy known as "the thaw." In a four-hour speech before the 20th Party Congress, supposedly secret but widely leaked, Khrushchev described to the faithful for the first time the full range of Stalin's crimes. ("But where were you during all those years?" one listener asked Khrushchev, according...
With a philosophy that he dubs "kick them when they're up," Safire has made enemies. The West German government was enraged by his early 1989 columns that helped reveal that nation's complicity in the construction of a Libyan poison-gas factory, which Safire dubbed "Auschwitz in the sand." Nancy Reagan in her autobiography, My Turn, denounces various Safire columns as "heartless and dumb" and "vicious and unbelievable...
...that trial, engineered by the ruling National Salvation Front as a means of officially burying the Ceausescu regime, instead symbolized how Ceausescu's legacy may yet poison Rumania's future. When a huge mob stormed the Front's headquarters last week shouting "Out with the Communists!," they were voicing the growing fear that the Front's leaders, who are almost all ex- lieutenants of Ceausescu's, may have renounced the dictator but not his methods. Now fledgling opposition parties to the Front are asking why it has mounted a Ceausescu-style show trial and why, if Ceausescu's old cronies...
...veto West German decisions concerning Berlin. The rights are resented even if they go unused, as has been the case with death sentences, and more so when used, as happened in 1988 when a U.S. eavesdropping operation exposed the fact that a West German firm was helping build a poison-gas plant in Libya...
...spines cause a painful itchy rash. But what's worse, they harbor a poison that attacks the lymph nodes, filling your body with a dull heavy and persistent pain for days. After the initial shock wears off, victims feels like they are carrying weights in their armpits or other extremities...