Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power failures. The toll: two dead, 40 injured. Duvalier's response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti's trigger-happy militia, known as the Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen. Duvalier also placed the country's 5,000-man regular army on alert...
...world. After Darwin theorized on the origin of species in 1859 it was soon acknowledged that new species do evolve from older ones in a gradual process. Possible beginnings of new species have since been recognized, catalogued and thoroughly investigated, but geneticists still remain ignorant of just what mechanisms trigger them. Now there is hope that a new thread of inquiry might begin to unravel the mystery. A new species appears to be developing in a laboratory...
...bananas really work? The best that chemists can suggest is that bananas contain serotonin, a neurochemical that is closely related to such potent mind-benders as psilocybin and dimethyl tryptamine, and which just might, under combustion, trigger genuine physiological effects. It is far more likely that any high produced by bananas is imaginary, another indication that, given a receptive state of mind, it is possible to turn on with practically anything-or virtually nothing. Witness the fact that some undergraduates, dissatisfied with mellow yellow, are already beginning to tout the high potentiality of yet another new ingredient: spider webs...
...will be offstage in the bathroom brushing his teeth. His wife, in the adjoining bedroom, calls out something. Suddenly the man appears, stark naked, toothbrush in hand, saying, "You know I can't hear you when the water's running." According to the playwright, this will trigger a "shock of recognition" in the audience, penis pity, perhaps...
...useful drug is aspirin, and it is remarkably safe for most adults. But each year, almost 150 U.S. children die of aspirin poisoning, and more have to be rushed to a hospital to have their stomachs pumped out. For in the young, aspirin dosage is a matter of hair-trigger sensitivity...