Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody is really upset that science is misused," Weinrub said yesterday. "They see huge stockpiles of modern outmoded weapons. They find poison in their food. They are afraid to eat anything-afraid to go outside and take a deep breath...
...superpowers. For nearly as long, it has also been the site of a smaller, less-publicized struggle that nonetheless has been far more lethal for its participants. It is an underground war involving hired assassins, silent murder, terror attacks and mission-impossible type weapons, including a variety of poison gas that West German authorities cannot yet identify. The fighters are Yugoslavs-exiles opposed to the regime of Josip Broz Tito on one side, agents of the Yugoslav secret service, the U.D.B.A., on the other...
...view of himself as the favored child of the universe has only led him to poison, pollute, exploit and overcrowd this earth. Man must realize that he is a part of nature; it does not exist solely for his benefit...
...Jimmy Miller. 241 pages. Knopf. $5.95. After the virtual depopulation of the U.S. and Russia by a Chinese poison plague in A.D. 2004, a tough New Yorker, a beautiful Parisian aristocrat and a hippie from Venus hunt for the missing Chinese war criminals. An overstrained, social-satire freak...
...prose as it must have been to the watching boy. "The spider drew the quivering baby to him and sank his long, curved mandibles into its back. The baby gave two minute, almost inaudible squeaks as it writhed briefly in the hairy embrace of the spider. The poison took effect, and then the spider turned and marched off, the baby hanging limply from his jaws." Happily, Durrell refrains from following this description with a bloodless dissertation on the importance of nature's balance. He is far too humane not to have been on the side of the bird. Indeed...