Word: lethal
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...numerous types of cancer, few are more dreaded than acute leukemia. The disease, which often afflicts the young, is characterized by an uncontrolled proliferation of certain white blood cells, which gradually crowd out the vital red blood cells. The cause of this lethal rampage is not yet clear, but what may be a crucial clue has just been reported in Nature by Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute. His findings could point the way to a leukemia cure...
Necessary Addition. The knottiest point for the justices was an earlier California Supreme Court decision that simply pointing a gun at someone is not "sufficiently provocative of lethal resistance" to support a charge of murder against surviving accomplices when the gun wielder is killed. Thus the issue in this case was whether the murder charge against Taylor could be justified by something his buddies did to incite Mrs. West that was even more provocative than waving a gun. According to the court majority, the verbal threat of "execution" and the agitated demeanor of the gunmen provided the necessary additional provocation...
Thus, "if a lethal homemade bomb is planted in your building, you can take immediate, decisive action to save lives and minimize costly damage." The price is only $149.50, with a 10% discount for orders of five or more. There might, of course, be some additional expense in finding a hero willing to tiptoe up to the bomb and swaddle it in the blanket...
Intolerable Noise. In an effort combining both professional and amateur lobbying, they besieged Senators from all over the country-excluding almost none, not even diehard SST backers. Their message: the SST was patently a luxury for the jet set, saving inconsequential hours at huge cost, and potentially a lethal one for everyone. It might pollute the upper air, even cause skin cancer by hampering the formation of the ozone layer that filters out ultraviolet sunlight, create intolerable noise at airports and monstrous, destructive sonic booms while it was airborne. Finally, they argued, it would take millions of dollars that could...
...driving rain, the villagers of Manpura Island could hear an unholy roar welling up from the Bay of Bengal. "It was pitch dark," said Abdul Jabbar last week, ''but suddenly I saw a gigantic, luminous crest heading toward our village." Jabbar managed to survive the lethal 120-m.p.h. cyclone and the 20-ft. tidal wave that followed, but most of his neighbors were less fortunate. All but 5,000 of Manpura Island's 30,000 people died in the surging waters. Most of the island's cattle, sheep, goats and buffaloes were drowned, and its fishing...