Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision of a city cleared of drab relics of half a century, cured of its traffic congestions, freed of the pollution of its rivers and the poison of its soot-heavy air, a city better housed. The hammering of the pile driver was the nervous pulse of a run-down old Pittsburgh acquiring a new life...
...between man and his less-educated cousins was proceeding with unwonted vigor. Britain's Ministries of Food and Agriculture joined forces in an offensive against rabbits of all nationalities, by lifting rationing restrictions on the sale of imported rabbits in Britain's butcher shops, and issuing free poison gas to Britain's farmers for the extermination of the domestic variety...
...Weissenbach, frankly partisan, denounced the aperitif or cocktail. Said he: "All drinks containing alcohol, even wine, taken before eating are poison." The proper dosage of wine to be taken with meals, he suggested, was about a pint a day for the intellectual worker, a quart for a factory worker, 1½ quarts for a man doing physical work out of doors...
...stay in Britain exploring the economic crisis, Leech had turned out a series of articles which started running in 30 U.S. papers last week. Despite the newsprint shortage, most London dailies also devoted precious space to Leech's report, while the pro-Labor press rapped him as a "poison...
...vial of potassium cyanide and reading The Pleasure of Dying. No sooner had he decided that it was not yet his time to taste this pleasure after all, than he became suddenly convinced that a former friend, the Polish writer, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, was trying to kill him by filtering poison gas through the walls of his room. He fled, writing to a friend to take care of his remains if he were killed, since he did not wish to be cut up by medical students. "The cheapest is cremation (50 francs)," he advised. "I do not want...