Word: quickest
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...were ruptured by the rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself in the head is not the quickest or surest suicide method. Shooters often live for hours or days after hitting themselves. It is very difficult to shoot oneself in the heart (the bullet usually ricochets off the breastbone or a rib). Oddly, suicides never seem to shoot themselves through their clothes, seem always to bare the skin...
...these frequently become involved in crimes. . . ." Dr. Snyder debunks some common notions about poisons: arsenic and strychnine, for example, though often used, are very dangerous to a murderer, because their presence in the body can be detected for some time after the murder. Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons to detect is morphine (its effects are easily confused with alcoholism, apoplexy). One of the deadliest is aconite (a hundredth of a grain is a killing dose). Perhaps the worst poison a suicide...
After one of the quickest joint staff conferences on record, the Navy set the course...
...Quickest way to make an Aussie boil was and is to tell him unjustly that his bloody island lacks culture. Without "bloody," Australians could not talk. An Aussie poem (circa 1904) made the point: The sunburnt bloody stockman stood And, in a dismal bloody mood, Apostrophised his bloody cuddy; The bloody nag's no bloody good, He couldn't earn his bloody food! A regular bloody brumby. Bloody...
...Engebi the Marines scored one of their quickest victories: six hours and five minutes after they had landed, following 1,000 tons of naval bombardment, the island was theirs...