Word: lethalness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Mountain Law. In the winter thick snows rest on Mont Blanc so lightly that the vibration of a man's voice can bring them cascading down in lethal tons. It was almost certain that nobody in the plane, even had he survived the crash, could have lived for two days on the mountain. In the valleys below Mont Blanc, however, there is an unwritten law that when a man is lost on the mountain, somebody must go after him. In Chamonix, sharp, energetic little Rene Payot, first Alpinist of France and chief instructor at the army's mountaineering...
...less lethal appetites: Half this grotesque life I spend in a state...
Another Dogpatch institution, the Skonk Works, is almost as lethal-scores have been done in by the fumes of the concentrated skonk oil which is brewed and barreled by its proprietor, Big Barnsmell, and his "outside man," Barney Barnsmell. Of the devices which are employed to make life horrible for Capp's characters, these are simply the more rudimentary...
...police. In desperation, Heston turns card sharper and, with two cronies, fleeces a sucker of $5,000. The sucker commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and child as well as a maniacal brother who sets out to eliminate the gamblers. He throttles two of them and has a lethal half nelson on Heston before the police intervene...
...play hardly purports to be a mystery; but in return it insists on being just about everything else, psychological and emotional, cultural and philosophic. There is a large mass of death cells and thunderstorms, bloody hands and lethal highballs; of human beings maddened by guilt, crazed with fear, foul-mouthed from frustration. There is a potpourri of metaphysics from the Gospels to Kierkegaard; of poetry from Marvell to Shelley; of painting from Modigliani to Cézanne...