Word: gas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official witnesses. The man was then strapped into a metal chair, a long stethoscope tube poking out from his collar and snaking through a wall socket into a side room, where a doctor waited to monitor his heartbeat. At 12:14 a.m., a capsule of cyanide gas tumbled down a tube and plopped into a dish of acid. The man sniffed the air expectantly and shrugged nonchalantly. Seconds later, he grimaced and began breathing deeply. His face turned red and then his head dropped to his chest. At 12:21 a.m., the doctor pronounced the man dead...
Terming the death penalty ''an occupational hazard'' in his line of work, Bishop refused to authorize an appeal of his case even when given the chance to do so minutes before entering the gas chamber. Said he: ''This is just one more step down the road of life that I've been heading all my life...
Little else was low. Despite decreases in sales of petroleum products and natural gas and a drop in refinery production, Exxon's revenues increased 30%, to $20.6 billion, compared with $15.9 billion in last year's third quarter. Net income soared 118% to $1.1 billion. Earnings per share jumped from $1.18 to $2.60, but Garvin failed even to mention that bullish news in his statement...
...radioactive gas and particles that rose from the stacks of a nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island last March may turn out to be as harmless to humans as many radiologists predict. But the cloud of uncertainty cast over the future of the beleaguered industry by the nation's scariest nuclear accident remains as dark as ever. This week the best-regarded of half a dozen commissions probing the accident will issue a scathing report that raises new questions about the safety of nuclear reactors and makes some important recommendations...
...addition to spending several summers working in medical labs, Brown worked in a factory in Italy and dug ditches for a gas company in France. "He had this amazing courage about going into new situations and getting to meet people," Moskowitz said. "He would spend the day talking and working with the people he met in the ditches, then have dinner with the owners; he could adapt like that," Moskowitz added...