Word: poisons
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...even veteran demolition men can be sure of avoiding them. Land mines lie buried in paddy trails; coconuts filled with explosives hang in jungle trees. A nylon trip wire can plunge a man onto a bed of iron spikes-or needle-sharp bamboo stakes smeared with excrement that will poison his blood. Stepping on an invisible thread can trigger a cross-bow's arrow into his chest, and stepping on a half-buried nail can pierce the detonating cap of the shotgun shell beneath his foot. The door of a village hut may be rigged to a battery...
Adults, watching a production of Hamlet, realize that the action is limited to the stage. They know, in reality, that Sir Laurence Olivier won't poison Michael Redgrave. They accept a dramatic illusion of reality in order to become involved with the plot and enjoy the play. In all art forms, an audience enters the fantasy world of the artist through this aesthetic illusion...
...troop of Confederate cavalry rustled about 2,500 steers from the Union forces and then sent them thundering through Grant's lines to the relief of Richmond. What's more, the story provides Director Edward Dmytryk with irresistible opportunities to plant a little poison ivy on the grave of Southern chivalry...
Class Selective. The most significant source of lead poisoning was wine. To help preserve and sweeten it, the Romans added a syrup made of unfermented grape juice that had been boiled down in lead-lined pots, thereby greatly increasing the absorption of lead. Unfortunately the Romans did not understand, says the California Ph.D., that "this slow poison, this delicious syrup" delayed the wine's souring by killing impure microorganisms. In sterilizing the wine, "they knew not that they were also sterilizing themselves...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Julie Harris and Farley Granger combine talents to poison Granger's wife so they can use her money to support their future life in "Nightmare...