Word: deadliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Streptomycin quickly proved its value against many forms of tuberculosis, but one of the deadliest held out against the wonder drug: tuberculous meningitis. A particular enemy of children (its bacilli attack the covering of the brain and spinal column), tuberculous meningitis used to mean swift and almost certain death; the few survivors were hopelessly crippled. Now, the U.S. Public Health Service reports, the death rate has been cut almost in half, and the damage to survivors greatly reduced...
...world war? Ryan went secretly to work (only a few Collier's staffers knew what was going on), traveling to Europe and around the U.S., collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into the Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin...
...snorkel, which will enable them to run on engines instead of batteries at periscope depth. They had bow planes that whipped out automatically from pockets at their sides, and they could dive at a steep 40° angle. Fast and silent as barracuda, the new Tangs are the deadliest new weapons in the Navy's underwater arsenal...
...glucoside obtained from almond. On hydrolysis, it yields three appropriate fragments: i) glucose which is the sweetest, life-giving, naturally occurring sugar; 2) benzaldehyde which is the starting material for many artificial perfumes, and 3) hydrocyanic acid which is a sweet, almond-smelling gas but one of the deadliest poisons known...
...atomic research center. Pontecorvo, whose brother and sister were lifelong Communists, might have been betraying reactor data from 1943 on, the committee guessed. He was rated by some colleagues as an even abler scientist than Fuchs. After Fuchs, said the committee, "Pontecorvo may be plausibly rated as the second deadliest betrayer . . . Certain it is that Russia today possesses nuclear reactors...