Word: poisons
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...Anthony Eden had described the Germany required for orderly Europe. Said Eden: "It is not part of our purpose to cause Germany to collapse economically. I say that not out of any love for Germany, but because a starving and bankrupt Germany in the midst of Europe would poison all of us who are her neighbors. That is not sentiment. It is common sense." But at Yalta, Eden admitted that "there had yet been no [British] Cabinet discussions" on plans for postwar Germany...
...Honeys is not based on the cartoons of Charles Addams-but it might as well be. The play concerns two sisters-in-law who have a perfectly marvelous time murdering their husbands. Its author revels in such lines as "He probably ate his wife" or "The poison will perforate his stomach like a cancelled check." And it does, in its best moments, achieve the same delightful morbidness that now characterizes the Addams people, just as it once distinguished the characters in Arsenic and Old Lace...
Unable to find a rare Type I, how can the young farmer at least run a test on Type II? "Take your candidate to the fields and the barns. Escort her across a muddy feed lot, lead her through poison ivy and, poison and all, take her to a dance. She'll complain . . . but if she comes back for more, she's your pigeon...
Readers may also join the lively game that Translator White plays among the footnotes and try to puzzle out what animal, vegetable or mineral the Middle Ages mistook for unicorn, dragon, griffin, basilisk, etc. White guesses that the poison-breathing basilisk was very likely the cobra, but thinks the griffin was strictly mythological, in fact "something of a Hieroglyphin...
...every trail is dotted with silent tribesmen padding to the rendezvous where the dream (a Commie plant) will be revealed and a huge arms cache is to be doled out. Author van der Post writes beautifully about the African landscape, and intelligently about the Reds' dangerous ability to poison man's dreams. Flamingo Feather is a political thriller of powerful literary magic...