Word: poisons
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...army out of Poland, he had entered into a new military agreement by which six Soviet divisions would remain in Poland, although their upkeep would in future be paid for by Moscow. His reason: "Safeguarding our security and protecting the sanctity of the Oder-Neisse line." The poison sowed by Stalin was still being harvested by Russia...
Rematch. In Los Angeles, Harvey and Billie Cravaack got divorced, then got married again, later separated following a court session (Harvey claimed he awoke once to find Billie "scratching on my Adam's apple with an icepick," and Billie countered that Harvey had threatened to poison their swimming pool), finally were divorced a second time after Billie testified that Harvey had pulled her from the shower, "dragged me by the hair of my head through the house," tossed her outdoors nude, later pushed her from their car on a freeway...
...started out, the A.M.A. had never held a meeting on industrial medicine, and technical papers on it by U.S. doctors were rare (though European work on it filled volumes). There were safeguards of sorts against physical accidents, but for a workman who spent years absorbing a slow but deadly poison, there was little thought. Dr. Hamilton had heard of men choked by carbon monoxide in the steel mills, of men palsied by white lead poisoning, of others disabled by arsenic and cyanides, of men with the "bends." To Alice Hamilton's socialist conscience, all this was outrageous...
...faculty that she got her greatest honor: as early as 1919 Harvard named her assistant professor in industrial medicine. Crusader Hamilton saw U.S. industry increasingly accept the fact that its workers' health was inseparable from an evergrowing productivity, saw her field broadened beyond the now obvious hazards of poison to include psychological hazards as well...
...would have recovered if left untreated. The only effective drug is antivenin, which must be used with care. Best first-aid treatment is a ligature or tourniquet to isolate the bitten part of the body. The wound should be enlarged to promote bleeding, and as much of the poison as possible should be sucked out of it. Then the patient should be taken to a doctor...