Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jones had pulled them "up from their seats saying they must go." A number of the dead, moreover, were small children or infirm older people who were probably unaware of what they were drinking. There is also a question that no autopsy can answer: Should those who swallowed the poison without resistance, out of a deluded devotion to a mad messiah, properly be classified as suicides...
...City (They got a crazy way of lovin' there and I'm gonna get me some). They wrote it. And Charlie Brown (Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?/ Who calls the English teacher "Daddy-O"?). They wrote that too. As well as Searchin'. And Poison Ivy (You 're gonna need an ocean/ Of Calamine lotion ...). And Smokey Joe's Cafe. And Yakety Yak. And Saved...
...really a shame that Klemesrud has buried the only constructive comment in her article. Wilma Scott Heide hasn't bitten Klemesrud's poison, and says, "The country's values are still white-male oriented rather than feminist. Men are getting some pressure to include women in major roles, so what roles do they give them--T. and A. (Tits and Ass). It shows that sexism is deeper than many people seem to realize and that men's ideas of giving women prominence is obviously still very narrow...
...tobacco. He worked until it was so dark he couldn't see, and then he hitched Daisy to the only two cows he had ever owned and dragged them off behind the field for the buzzards to eat. He was afraid to butcher them because of the poison...
...survivor had witnessed the entire ritual of death, so just how Jones died remained uncertain. He was found at the foot of his pavilion chair with a bullet wound in his head, an apparent suicide. A pistol lay near by. An autopsy disclosed that Jones had not consumed the poison and had not been dying of cancer, as he had often told his followers...