Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arsenic Lilly-to use the name by which some doctors call her-is an attractive, dark-haired woman in her middle 30s. She has a fatal way with...
...flight crew notice it, and because it does not lead to fires or loss of power, it usually goes undiscovered until ground technicians check the plane. The engine troubles have caused no dangerous mishaps so far. Indeed, the 747 is history's safest plane, having had no fatal accidents in 391 million miles of flight since the first commercial takeoff in 1970. But the latest difficulties are causing high costs and consternation for airline executives, who are understandably reluctant to trumpet their troubles to the world...
...audacious 12 year old, claiming "Stevie knows me," had just successfully talked his way into the Wonderlove dressing room. He was Jane's charge; Jane, it seems, has a fatal weakness for children, she made sure he was taken into the dressing room personally...
...vampires' undoing. One is the fact that bats, like rats, are more sensitive than most mammals to the hemorrhagic properties of anticoagulants. These are the chemicals used medicinally to protect human victims of heart attacks and strokes against the recurrence of dangerous blood clotting; overdoses can cause fatal internal bleeding. The best known anticoagulant, warfarin, is used in calculated overdoses as a rat poison. In 1968 a two-nation team began work at the National Livestock Research Institute in Mexico City and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Wildlife Research Center in Denver to try to kill...
...catch the vampires for their fatal treatment, the bat killers suspend, above the fence of a cattle corral, a Japanese nylon mist net, as fine as a lady's "invisible" hair net. The net is invisible in the dark when the bats sortie and, more important, its fine threads give back no detectable echo for the vampire's sonar system. When a bat is netted, a technician wearing tough leather gloves carefully removes it from the net and rubs its back with half a teaspoonful of petroleum jelly laced with 50 milligrams of diphenadione...