Word: deadliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deadliest denizen of Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp's disorderly world is the Lower Slobbovian Bald Iggle, the gentle-looking bird that fixes a maddening, sad-eyed stare upon anybody who tells a lie. If Lower Slobbovia really existed and the U.S. needed an ambassador there, Washington would do well to send Manhattan Dress Merchant Maxwell Henry Gluck. Of all the foreign diplomats in Lower Slobbovia, Max Gluck alone would be so honest that he would run into no trouble with Bald Iggles...
Chile, the doughty little country that never lost a shooting war, is fighting a desperate battle against the hemisphere's deadliest case of inflation. Until the beginning of this year, victory was in the air; President Carlos Ibanez, advised by U.S. Economic Consultants Klein & Saks, had effectively reversed 40 years of accelerating inflation. But last week the battle was again going against the inflation-fighters...
...just in Jordanian terms. All the fearful forces of Middle East hatred, fury and greed had taken sides in the struggle; the overshadowing powers of East and West themselves joined in. Hussein was surrounded by foes within and friends without, and by foreign "friends" who were in fact his deadliest menaces because they egged on the domestic foes...
...April 1 article on highway signs: 9,408 Maryland motorists may be against billboards qua billboards, but they are glad to see an "eat" sign when hungry, and a "motel" sign when tired. Most studies show distractions keep motorists alert on long drives, and parkways without signs are the deadliest...
...Yoshio Oyama was a skilled veteran in deep-sea diving. For 20 years he had flirted, unscathed, with underwater hazards, of which the deadliest is the invisible "bends"-nitrogen coming out of solution in the blood and forming bubbles that cause excruciating pain or paralysis. A fortnight ago, Veteran Diver Oyama met the bends...