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Word: lethality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army crews in the high-tech helicopters had used infrared vision- enhancing gear to watch the Iranians rolling their explosive cargo into the sea. Under questioning, some of the sailors admitted what they were doing and even told where they had dropped the lethal charges. U.S. Navy SEALs (sea, air and land commandos) who boarded the vessel found charts detailing the mine- laying scheme. This helped the Navy locate and disarm seven other mines that the Iran Ajr had dropped into the sea-lanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Act | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...Exeter classmates and football buddies have feelings, too, and to suddenly spend less than 100 percent of one's free time with them is liable to cause misunderstandings and hurt feelings. And imagine how embarassed one would be to come shamefacedly back into the fold after having caught a lethal venereal disease from a "friendly" stranger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Derek Bok's Harvard | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...four men in the attic of his wife's factory. The victims, dead for 24 hours, were bound and gagged except for one, who turned out to be Park. Police say Park committed suicide, while the others, most of whom had worked for her, were strangled or swallowed lethal pills. Authorities suggest that Park, who was given to apocalyptic rantings, was the leader of a cult; with debts mounting in this world, she simply decided to lead her flock on to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: 32 Corpses in The Attic | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

When 44-year-old John Powell died at Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital last | March, doctors were not surprised. Powell had suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident and had been comatose for eight months. But an autopsy revealed that Powell had actually died from a lethal dose of cyanide received shortly before his death. After a brief investigation, Donald Harvey, a 35- year-old orderly at Drake, confessed to the killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethal Doses: Police probe 34 deaths | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...mines, discovered after one blasted a hole in the U.S.-owned tanker Texaco Caribbean, added a lethal new twist to Washington's showdown with Iran. The explosives were the first to be found in the Gulf of Oman, a vital staging area for ships plying the Persian Gulf. Although the U.S.-escorted Bridgeton struck what appeared to be an Iranian mine last month, that mishap occurred hundreds of miles inside the Persian Gulf. One result of the new danger was a change of heart by Britain and France, which decided to rush minesweepers to the region after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Here a Mine, There a Mine | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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