Word: poisons
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...went down to the basement, filled a hypodermic with snake venom and gave himself eight injections. When his wife came to call him for dinner, she found him lying on the floor. "Don't call a doctor," he whispered, "there's no antidote to this poison." In a few minutes, he was dead...
Back in civilian life, the Pinkertons prospered. Every kind of criminal, from Western train robber to international jewel thief, fell before them. In 1886, they solved a New Orleans murder case in which the main clue was an obscure African poison injected from a hollow needle into the leg of a pretty girl. In the '20s, they caught a bigamist who gave as his reason for burning his second wife the indisputable fact that "it is hard for a man to support two wives...
...Largely ignored a chance to hear a 60,000-word attack on Secretary of Defense George Marshall by Wisconsin's poison-tipped Joe McCarthy. Despite McCarthy's loud advance promise to expose "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man," only a dozen Senators were on hand when he began. In familiar fashion, McCarthy twisted quotes, drew unwarranted conclusions from the facts he did get right, accused Marshall of having "made common cause with Stalin" since 1943. By this time most of the gallery...
After the ninth letter, the ninth reversal, the judge committed suicide in despair. But his fiendishly omniscient correspondent quickly found other victims -a bishop, a prince, a shipping magnate, the chancellor himself. The police were at wit's end. Who was the poison-pen man? How did he come by his astonishing information...
...drive from Manhattan to Miami gave Columnist Robert C. Ruark meat for an ulcerous attack on roadside restaurants. If you spot one that has "a neon light out front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must...