Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a lethal morning. Dead lay four men: Prison Guard John Hartye, Patrolman Fagan, Convict Waters, and Convict Miller, who had died of excitement in his hospital...
...Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from the GPU and Gestapo ever since he spilled bushels of Communazi beans in his best-selling Out of the Night...
Almost as annoying to the Nazis as the Beggars' lethal pranks is the uncompromising stiff-neckedness of all Hollanders. Typical of the Dutch attitude was the banquet given for the Germans by the Burgomaster of Breda, Barthelomeus W. Th. van Slobbe, onetime Governor of Curacao and a student of history. Compelled to throw an official party for the invaders, Van Slobbe served up a curious meal, topped it off with a flowery archaistic speech. Next day the Germans found he had copied menu and oratory verbatim from a similar occasion after the French conquered Breda...
...British experts believed in the possibility of mass gas attacks wiping out whole cities. Few believed that Germany has discovered any new, unprecedentedly lethal gas. The familiar poison gases, against which Britons were warned, are the following...
Sternutators cause sneezing and vomiting, and were occasionally used in the last war because they penetrated the then crude gas masks, produced their irritations, caused men to remove masks and fall victim to more lethal gases...