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...Real Killers. Black Psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, authors of Black Rage, put it still more strongly: "Most whites, including psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, are amazed to learn that their hatred of blacks is culturally determined, psychologically malignant, and can be ultimately lethal." How lethal it can be, they say, is evident when "law and order" is invoked, supposedly to protect white Americans from "murderous killer blacks." But, insist Grier and Cobbs sweepingly, "When the dust clears, the bodies are all black. The killers are white...
When Merrily came back to her little house stuck like a book in a shelf above the sea, she found brave Sam had turned on the radio and was smoking a lethal straight and listening sagely to a commercial in Spanish telling you how you could improve your husband's disposition and the quality of your home life by serving tortillas hocho in the hogar...
...surface samples from both Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 and core samples from 12, the single-celled plants continued to reproduce normally. But when Taylor used Apollo 11 core material, taken from as deep as eight inches below the surface by Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, the bacteria encountered something lethal...
...spider to spin a web, for example, can be affected by air pollution; mosses, which accumulate lead from the environment, are a good measure of lead pollution. In effect, the system will be analogous to the old practice of placing canaries in coal mines to warn miners of impending lethal concentrations...
Warnings. In the wake of the riot, state and federal officials tried to place responsibility on each other. Both levels might have acted more vigorously in heading off the potentially lethal spasm. The Federal Government had warnings of trouble the previous day; McNair even called Attorney General John Mitchell about Lamar's volatility...