Word: lethalness
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...exam by making yourself sick by ingesting too much caffeine, that would be pretty much impossible. Somebody (a desperate pre-med, perhaps?) looking to achieve a fatal overdose would need to sit down and chug 100 cups of coffee. “I think there’s a lethal dose of almost anything,” says HMS Professor Don Coen. “High-enough doses of caffeine can certainly cause seizures, but that’s not from the kind of dose people would ordinarily take.” Bring on the double-tall espresso macchiatos...
...work, it don't work." JOSEPH L. CLARK, Ohio death-row inmate, after his executioners struggled for half an hour to find a noncollapsed vein in which to inject a lethal dose of drugs...
Even Score. Ivy was a success, as every TV viewer could plainly see last week. Beneath a lethal fireball 3¼ miles in diameter, the "shot" island, Elugelab, was transmuted into an ocean hole 175 ft. deep. But Ivy was a cumbersome, complicated test device that no airplane could carry...
...with fine-tuned irony: "He looks so edible - I mean adorable" says one of a bunny. And they threaten to turn the violence on themselves. To judge by the comments alone, Cuteoverload.com is a factor in the demise of dozens of netizens. Heads explode at the mere exposure to lethal levels of cuddliness. Or, as one contributor wrote about his reaction to a school of ducklings following their mom: "I barfed a rainbow...
...Brunnig, who shuttled to the plate to take his third at-bat out of the designated hitter spot—he went 0-for-3—before returning to the pen to continue his warm-ups, entered the game in the eighth and also fell victim to the lethal Reynoso-Frates combination. The duo, which finished the day a combined 7-for-7 with seven RBI, strung together back-to-back singles to key a two-run rally. “They’re a good hitting team,” Haviland said. “Their last...