Word: poison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would see the New Deal's end. But general agreement, not only in Washington D. C., but in Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, etc., was that, with stage set, audience waiting, superspectacle prepared-with a fine cast of characters, a wonderful story, a happy ending-the star performer was poison at the box office...
...weeks of the Finnish war can be branded as completely false. But the wording of headlines and the rating of "news" stories make a mockery of the impartiality promised by newspapers. It is under these conditions that each morning millions of Americans who are uneducated to the poison of propaganda sit down to read their daily papers...
...declares that instead of the proverbial truth being at the bottom of the well it has been replaced by "cuttlefish that are fouling it with their inky poison of lies and hate." "Harvard," he hints, "has been specializing in this type of fish" (the communist octopus...
...operate; even those whom it tears apart are sometimes not conscious of it until too late. Vaguely, Vag remembered reading of termites who burrow unseen within a beautiful and apparently strong house; then, suddenly, the house collapses. It was something like that with people. Jealousy, like a poison--perhaps like a cancer; but worse, since a cancer, if discovered early, can be cured--constantly, subtly tries to gain acceptance in the mind. Once the entering wedge is injected, every incident, every word, every expression can be twisted to the support of a pre-determined conclusion...
...wife takes headache tablets which her frightened son inadvertently mixes up with poison after breaking a poison bottle. The doctor and the Austrian girl are held for murder. Sentenced to be hanged, he is comforted by the thought that other people find most disturbing: "Death is not the worst thing we have to face, only the last...