Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Hazard. In Mexico City, Cobbler Inocencio Rosa Cortes took one despairing look at an impossibly battered pair of shoes, screamed, stabbed himself ten times...
...patients, Dr. Foss warned, now face a new hazard: many of the 40,000 young medical officers demobilized at war's end have begun to practice surgery without proper training (because surgical posts in hospitals, where they might be trained, are scarce...
...radioactive world, nobody ever feels completely safe. Radioactivity, a stealthy, silent horror that is neither felt nor seen, is both a mental and a physical hazard. Last week the U.S. had a small sample of the radioactivity fear that may become commonplace in the Atomic...
Hook. In Texarkana, Ark., Dr. J. A. Little golfed to the shallow part of a water hazard, took a healthy swing, nib-licked high & dry one four-pound bass...
Freezing is not the only hazard in an earthworm's uncertain life: burrowing beetles, bloodthirsty slugs, spiders and porcupines are all constant menaces. Worms stay below ground until nightfall, when they can safely emerge to do their courting and prowling. Living such a life, the earthworm is intensely nervous and sensitive to the slightest vibration of danger. Though blind, it has learned to pick up the tremors of an approaching sparrow and to snap back into its hole like a rubber band...