Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Göring's suicide, elaborate theories blossomed. Samples: the poison capsule was hidden in his pipe stem, in a small abdominal incision, in a tooth, in the binding of a book. Dizziest theory of the lot was that Göring faked the gurgling sounds of pain which first attracted the guard to his cell; thereupon the guard summoneJ the doctor, who then administered the poison...
...elaborate schemes were not necessary. The number of people who had opportunity to give poison to Göring were legion. There were German doctors, cooks and laundry workers. While working in the prison they were forbidden to go outside, but they had contact with people from outside. Then there was the courtroom itself: during recesses throngs of people milled about the dock and papers were passed back & forth. Not since the day Göring entered Nürnberg prison was he forced to submit to a rectal examination. Other parts of his body (his ears, for instance) went...
...jewels to match her costumes. She said: "A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold arid with evening clothes one wears platinum." Among the missing was her famous diamond stork-shaped clip; a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings; a 58.2 carat aquamarine ring...
...deal with a foreign general who was a guest at the hangings and had installed a special telephone to get his call. Finally the general called, said everything had gone off like clockwork. He did not bother to mention what he assumed Bennett knew: that Göring was a suicide. I.N.S. got off an inaccurate bulletin...
...through the night, the truth knocked timidly at the door. In a hallway a G.I. guard called out to Betty Knox, an American working for Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard: "Hey, have you heard that Göring committed suicide?" She had known the G.I. since childhood, but she had heard latrine rumors before, so she let it pass. Another guard told Mutual's Robert Gary, who tried to pin it down in time for a Gabriel Heatter news broadcast and got nowhere. "A man could ruin himself in five minutes," said Gary, virtuously, "by broadcasting a silly...