Word: poisons
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...they? Older? They'll kill us. Make 'em younger ... real small, pygmies with eyes like poison darts. Why are they coming? They'll want to fight! We'll talk and let them sit in back of the room," members of the white gang said when told Negroes would soon join their group...
...reckoned with this tradition when they butchered a dozen recalcitrant Dayaks in the village of Taum. Angry tribal powwows quickly followed throughout northwest Kalimantan, and runners were sent from village to village with bowls of blood, the signal to all Dayaks to get ready to use their homemade pistols, poison darts and machete-like parangs against the Chinese...
...tobacco industry's health-prompted "tar derby" back in 1960 on grounds that no standard testing methods existed, reversed itself last year at Magnuson's behest. With the new rankings, which will be revised periodically, Magnuson hopes that now "the American smoker will choose his poison" and force the industry into another derby...
...telling them how much they had been maligned by the press. Heavily criticized for his jocular references to questionable police practices, he did not back down a bit. "The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs," he said testily. "I suppose they will have to use poison...
...some University officials had arranged appointments between FBI agents and students, and had, in other ways, cooperated with the FBI in campus matters. This is a role a University administrator should never play. It would be especially distasteful now since it would give rise to an inference that could poison the atmosphere of this community--namely that the University agrees with the FBI's position that the peace movement is filled with criminals and conspirators whose every activity must be watched...