Word: poisons
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...that easily recognizable mass schizophrenia or infantilism or call it what psychosis you will, which always takes possession of us when we find ourselves all alone in the great big, terrifying, dangerous, adult world. Remember last time, when we passed the strictest prohibition laws we could think up, put poison in the liquor, and then drank ourselves blind for 14 years...
...carry out specific missions. ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) glamor girls gathered in hotel lounges and went to work on officers-and reported back to headquarters indiscretions both by "Nazis" and by defenders. Home Guardsmen were so good at catching Fifth Columnists that invaders avoided Home Guard road blocks like poison, sometimes detouring for miles in order to escape detection. One officer with a phony pass, who was finally caught by the Home Guard, had previously got through two regular Army sentries' examinations. One parachutist, whose instructions were to reach a given spot within a given time, using every possible...
...stuff than even Miss White could appropriately offer. But this week Republic was ready to offer another, 1941-style. She is beauteous Frances Gifford, a 22-year-old, blue-eyed brunette, somewhat scratched and bruised from two months of grappling with pythons, scrambling off sacrificial altars, evading avalanches and poison arrows for the 31-reel thriller Jungle Girl...
...reported by the Hearst press, a typical Legion stricture on Welles and The Free Company was that of Homer L. Chaillaux, chairman of the Legion's National Americanism Commission: ". . . cleverly designed to poison the minds of young Americans. . . ." Echoed a spokesman for a Legion post in Brooklyn: "The name itself, Free Company, sounds suspiciously Communistic...
...Martin & Thompson, guessing that these substances were the body's natural antidotes to poison, made a mixture of all five, gave it to their animals along with doses of various harmful drugs. When they matched the "detoxicants" with poisons, grain for grain, the death rate of their animals was sliced to a fraction, in some cases disappeared. For example, arsenic, which killed 65% of the rats, killed only 15% when it was given with the detoxicants; a dose of sulfathiazole that would ordinarily have killed 40% of a large group of mice killed none. At the same time...