Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death. Of the original 14-member revolutionary team that overthrew King Farouk, only two men still hold political posts, and Sadat is one of them. Completely loyal to Nasser, he took on a long succession of foreign and domestic jobs, including the speakership of the National Assembly. Colorless except for his frequent anti-Western snipes, Sadat has never attempted to cultivate a following of his own. Thus his election might temporarily satisfy more serious contenders...
...While the others contain GB, a colorless and almost odorless gas that can kill within minutes, it holds ten pounds of VX, a far more potent agent. The container was marked with an X so it would receive special handling. But the Army had all the boxes painted silver to reduce the heating effect of the sun, inadvertently obliterating the X-and the identity of the more lethal...
What has given everyone the jitters is a colorless, almost odorless nerve gas coded GB, able to kill or incapacitate human beings within seconds. It blocks the enzyme the body uses to destroy one of its own chemical nerve-signal transmitters that becomes poisonous after serving its function. This affects control of the nervous system and ultimately causes the body to poison itself. This week, if all goes according to plan, the Army will begin shipping 12,540 rockets armed with GB from depots in Anniston, Ala., and Blue Grass, Ky., to Sunny Point arsenal in North Carolina. There...
...colorless, odorless nerve gases that can kill or incapacitate humans within seconds. Last year President Nixon included such gases in his ban on the U.S.'s "first use" of chemical and biological weapons. But he is obviously determined to retain stockpiles big enough to counter the Russians, who are well armed with the weapons. In fact, thousands of tons of nerve gas, packed in bombs, rockets or artillery shells, are still secretly stockpiled at U.S. bases round the globe. And that fact alone is bound to cause an uproar whenever civilians living near a base hear that gases...
...worked his way through Harvard, running the motorboat for the crew and tutoring, and had very little time left over for activities. As one of his classmates put it: "He wasn't interested in athletics-he couldn't have made any of the teams. He was really a drab, colorless grind...