Word: deadliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Hurricane Center in Miami described the storm as "extremely dangerous" and called it one of the deadliest Gulf of Mexico storms of the century...
...times he does have doubts. The movement, he has discovered, is riddled with personal rivalries. Black nationalism's deadliest virus is also spreading: "Tribalism is a disease that is growing within us." He worries about the divisions within families: What will happen to the cousins and brothers of guerrillas who are serving in the police or the security forces? "Why did there have to be a power struggle at all? Why wasn't power handed over as it was in Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania? Now the situation is pathetic. We are almost at the point of a bloodbath...
...college timber. What Hill does understand is the steely textures of urban nightmares. From its opening image−a neon pink Coney Is land Ferris wheel against an inky sky−to its final burst of gore, The Warriors offers a hallucinatory vision of New York's deadliest nocturnal horrors. Hill creates creepy poetry out of menacing shadows, glinting switchblades, garish graffiti and charging subway trains. If enough people see this movie, it could sabotage single-handed the "I Love New York" advertising campaign...
...doses it produces a euphoric high, which he says, "makes it attractive as a drug of abuse. This is tantamount to legalized dope." Further, said Wolfe, Darvon-related deaths in the U.S. have been increasing, rising in major cities to about 600 last year and making the compound "the deadliest prescription drug in the United States." Eli Lilly and Co., of Indianapolis, the principal manufacturer, promptly branded Wolfe's charges "irresponsible and clearly not supported by the facts...
...parliamentary investigating committee has issued a damning report on Italy's worst ecological disaster. On July 10, 1976, an explosion at the Swiss-owned Icmesa chemical plant discharged a thick white cloud of dioxin, one of the deadliest known poisons, over some 4,000 acres of the small industrial suburb 13 miles north of Milan. As the poison settled on homes and gardens in the following days, thousands of pets died, crops were infected and hundreds of people developed nausea, blurred vision and, especially among children, the disfiguring sores of a skin disease known as chloracne...