Word: lethal
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...tottering. But if we stop educating ourselves and others as to what the CRR is really all about, if we diffuse the pressure that we have brought to bear, we will allow Harvard to institutionalize and instrument of respression every bit as real, if not as lethal, as the machinery working to crush the Panthers...
...responsible for 15 to 18 pounds of garbage a day. Much of it consists of a dozen or more varieties of plastics that can be burned, provided the local air-pollution code allows the hospital to use an incinerator. But the PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastics may generate lethal fumes containing hydrochloric acid and phosgene, a poisonous gas once used in chemical warfare. Other plastics melt and clog the incinerators...
...long hours, the tired men in Mission Control breathed easier. But the astronauts did not. Houston soon noticed that carbon dioxide exhaled by the astronauts was building up to a dangerous level in the lunar module's atmosphere; lithium hydroxide air purifiers in Aquarius, designed to absorb the potentially lethal gas for only relatively short periods of time, were becoming saturated. The deactivated command module was equipped with more purifiers, but their canisters were not interchangeable with the LM's. Mission Control instructed the astronauts to lead a second hose into the command module and connect it to the canisters...
...Real Killers. Black Psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, authors of Black Rage, put it still more strongly: "Most whites, including psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, are amazed to learn that their hatred of blacks is culturally determined, psychologically malignant, and can be ultimately lethal." How lethal it can be, they say, is evident when "law and order" is invoked, supposedly to protect white Americans from "murderous killer blacks." But, insist Grier and Cobbs sweepingly, "When the dust clears, the bodies are all black. The killers are white...
When Merrily came back to her little house stuck like a book in a shelf above the sea, she found brave Sam had turned on the radio and was smoking a lethal straight and listening sagely to a commercial in Spanish telling you how you could improve your husband's disposition and the quality of your home life by serving tortillas hocho in the hogar...