Word: poisons
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Without much hope, the doctors started all the standard treatments: a hefty shot of tetanus antitoxin (to counteract the poison released by the bacteria in the festering wound), penicillin to reduce the spread of infection, sedatives to calm the anguished patient, and muscle relaxants to ease his stiffening, contorted body. They cleaned the infected wound and put Douma in an oxygen tent (because the nerve center that controls breathing is especially susceptible to tetanus poison). But it seemed to be too late. During the next 24 hours, Douma suffered several convulsions and muscle spasms. His back arched like...
...give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar...
...that if its owner wants to sell his property, I cannot see what business it is of anyone. Contrary to the Secretary of the Interior, the Potomac Palisades are not "a great scenic resource" ; they are just pretty, and their only uniqueness is the curious richness with which the poison ivy grows...
Sighting-in on Nixon seemed so simple that some of the newsmen's barbs were tipped not with poison but with pity. "Everything he says or does these days seems to go wrong," wrote the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston from San Francisco last week. "The harder he runs, the more he stumbles. Even in his home state after all these years, he seems trapped by that old familiar but vague charge that 'there is something about him that troubles me.' One hears it all again, like the echo of the past...
American journalism does not possess any agency to guard its standards and supervise its practitioners. A newspaper publisher can give criminal advice, lie to the public, poison its intelligence without being held accountable for his conduct...