Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again when a Soviet counterintelligence officer had second thoughts. On May 8, a team of Russian forensic experts performed autopsies in a Berlin hospital mortuary. Their full reports are reproduced verbatim in grisly detail that even notes the discovery that Hitler had only one testicle. Glass splinters, apparently from poison ampoules, were found in the mouths of both bodies. There were no visible gunshot wounds-although part of Hitler's cranium was missing-and "the marked smell of bitter almonds and the presence of cyanide compounds in internal organs" led the Soviet doctors to conclude that the deaths...
Laboratory is more exciting. By sophisticated treatment of everybody cupboard compounds, one synthesizes chemical exotica. The poisons are the best. Along with tornados, poisons are the most charismatic things in nature. Introduction to a great poison or a great man is the same--the pulse quickens for both "Today you will use mercuric chloride. Inhalation of two tenths of a gram of mercuric chloride dust will kill...
...plant, which bears 40 to 50 artichokes. With an average of four mice per plant, the mouse population runs to well over 2,000 per acre. Fighting back against such hungry hordes, the farmers have resorted to aerial "bombing" of the fields with oats coated with a poison (zinc phosphide) that is strong enough to kill mice, too mild to hurt other wildlife. In one "Kill Mouse Day" last week, planes swooped down and dropped 46,000 lbs. of poisoned oats, which left countless casualties on the surface, others in their burrows...
Babe's jogging insight is thus reflected in the careful contrivances of plot elements. The dialogue is truly gifted for its dramatically effective journalism and in addition there is Babe's irresistable sense of wit, a dark and noxious poison that one sniffs for the resulting quiver...
...promising son to academies in Paoting and Tokyo, Japan. When she died in 1921, the fast-rising young Chiang matched her devotion by building her an elaborate tomb in the eastern China mountain village of Chikow, where the family lived. Last week, calling her memorial a "source of poison in Chinese society," an official Peking report joyfully revealed that members of the Red Guards had attacked the tomb and razed it to rubble. That particular act of barbarism, as Peking saw it, "marks a great victory for the thought of Mao Tse-tung...