Word: poisons
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...wonder drug, sulfanilamide, has cured apparently hopeless streptococcus infections, but it has also caused many a headache, and worse-nausea, dizziness, fever, even mild, temporary forms of insanity. For some patients, sulfanilamide is plain poison...
...turning point of the uphill fight came six minutes from the final gun when lanky Howie Dunbar, who had scored 20 points for the Ithacans, went out on fouls. He had been poison to the Crimson all night and when he left the game the enemy attack sputtered and came to a standstill...
...time when life in the U. S. metropolis was ripe for the mirroring his style could give it. Boom-time big talk was growing louder and more insistent; while an implacable depression was creeping into the consciousness of ordinary citizens. Such a howling opposition between appearance and reality was poison for Fearing's equanimity, but meat for his pen. He became one of Bohemia's most egregious bottle-men (figuring in at least three now half' forgotten novels), and developed a gin-clear view of things that, on occasions, approximated perfect sight. His best poem, Minnie...
...amply qualified for his important mission. One of the foremost research chemists in the United States, he served during the last war with the Bureau of Chemistry and the Bureau of Mines. He headed a large staff of men carrying on experiments on the manufacture and effects of poison...
Towards the latter part of the war, as Major Conant, he supervised more than 100 chemists in a secret experiment on poison vapor, during which he and his staff were closely guarded and virtually held prisoner...