Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schultes' work with narcotics has led to developments such as mescaline, which causes a "beautifully colored visual hallucination," he says, and psilocybin, which is extracted from a mushroom plant native to Mexico. Both drugs have been used in psychiatry...
...Reagan's view, the scenario for World War III would become more like an arcade video game and less like a prime-time apocalypse. Instead of mushroom clouds springing up from charred landscapes and families being vaporized in their backyards or dying slow deaths from radiation sickness, the imagery would feature unmanned enemy projectiles being zapped and disintegrating high above the earth; the planet and its population would remain out of harm...
...death toll from a devastating fire last Feb. 25 in the shantytown-or favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble...
Others contend external threats require such restrictions, but fundamental political liberties are nonnegotiable. Every generations has forced its own threats...whether mushroom clouds and evil empires or invading armies and economic crises. To justify unprecedented compromises of traditional civil rights for supposedly unfamiliar dangers launches a journey all too familiar in history. Ultimately, that's a realization both those inside and outside this Administration should remember more often...
...munching pizza, filled a TV room at Emory University in Atlanta. At the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, nuclear-freeze activists reserved a set for Spanish-speaking viewers and provided a translator. In an unnerving coincidence, a blackout darkened 3,000 homes in Gloucester, Mass., just as the mushroom cloud filled the screen. Power was restored shortly, but not before hundreds of residents felt the chill of their worst imaginings...