Word: poisons
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...nation's most widely used herbicide, 2, 4-D; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Experimenting with synthetic plant hormones, Jones found that one killed broad-leaved plants instead of stimulating growth, leaving such narrow-leaved plants as corn unscathed; it soon became the standard ingredient in preparations for controlling poison ivy and dandelion, paved the way for a host of other weed killers...
...come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself." Retorted Lady Astor: "You are not handsome enough to have worries of that kind." Churchill was the only sparring partner she seldom bested. Once she exclaimed: "If I were your wife, I'd put poison in your coffee!" Growled Churchill: "And if I were your husband, I'd drink...
...eerie glow of Klan crosses burning in a score of Mississippi communities. In Louisiana, TV Newsman Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...
...murder of Bernard. As the film crawls forward, it becomes clear that her husband eats too much too fast, has a lot of money, reads nothing but newspapers, shoots live animals, and above all, fears death only because he is so content. What else is there to do but poison...
...poison in the bottles he brandished had been intended for his food, Houphouet reported, just in case the hexed coffins did not work. But the word got out (witchmen are notorious gossips), and the perpetrator had already gone to his reward. He was Ernest Boka, 36, until two weeks ago president of the Ivory Coast's Supreme Court and the third man in line of succession behind Houphouet. Boka had confessed, Houphouet claimed, and then hanged himself by his pajama trousers in the prison shower. So does justice catch up with the juju man, Houphouet warned...