Word: poison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watch the news with our children. It leaves garbage in the living room. Every story gets viewed through a dirty prism: How much is our foreign policy shaped by domestic scandal? Did the tobacco bill fail because the President couldn't afford the fight? Cynicism is a political poison we've been absorbing into our bloodstream for a generation. But this time cynicism is just the beginning...
...hope the drubbing that movie critics gave a summer gross-out called BASEketball--which concerns a homemade game similar to one that the director once actually invented--will not poison the public's mind about hybrid sports created by bozos with nothing better to do. I speak as one of the founders of frizzball...
...rather than a lethal nerve gas, was used in Tailwind. Gary Michael Rose, who was the medic on Tailwind, spoke quietly but determinedly to TIME about his version of events. "At no time was the word deserter or any type of thing that could be alluded to as poison or toxic ever briefed during the mission briefings that we had," he said. When the U.S. planes dropped the gas, Rose said he knew that it was tear gas rather than a nerve gas. "It burned like CS [tear gas] in the eyes; my throat felt like CS; and my skin...
...Romeo and Juliet. They play all the parts, provide the sound effects (pounding fists, stomping feet, a slow hiss when a character dies), and manipulate the show's single prop: a red silken fabric that serves as, among other things, a shawl, a sword and a vial of poison...
...Hamas to come to the conclusion that its place is no longer in Jordan." That may be happening. Last week Hamas sources said they were relocating the headquarters of their political wing from Jordan to Syria. That office is headed by KHALED MESHAL, whom Israeli agents tried, unsuccessfully, to poison to death in Amman last year. King Hussein saved Meshal's life by forcing Israel to provide an antidote, and to free Sheik Yassin in exchange for the captured agents...