Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most lethal rat-killer known is odorless, tasteless "1080" (TIME, Sept. 17), recently developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The same basic poison was simultaneously isolated as the toxic element in a deadly South African plant called "Gifblaar." But 1080, like atomic energy, is almost too hot to handle. It is ideal for murderers. A human victim, without smelling or tasting a thing, could probably be done in by 1/50...
...qualities that makes Sherrod a great war reporter was revealed when he had a chance to go ashore on the lethal beach at Iwo Jima. The first night of the invasion a colleague urged him: "I wouldn't go there, if I were you. It's plain foolishness. The Nips are going to open up with everything they've got to impart." Writes Sherrod: "I looked down into the faces of the men in the boat, and I saw written on them the same fear that gripped at my guts. I knew these men could not stay...
Stored all over England are thousands & thousands (the exact figures are a military secret) of deadly 500-lb. gas bombs. For anything but killing, the gas is useless. Some of it is so lethal that it kills in 30 seconds; nurses must stand ready with first aid near the workers who manufacture it. British chemists have considered various schemes...
...this vision in one of the world's great faiths (Buddhism) and in religious works of great power (the Vedas and Upanishads). India, under its squalor and its filth, its superstitions and its cruel ties, its babble of 75 languages and dialects and hodge-podge of peoples, its lethal famines and lethal wars, was nevertheless the most intensely spiritual area on earth...
...aquarium. Before they left, they had stripped the great gambling Casino in Monte Carlo of its copper dome, placed ack-ack batteries in the Tir aux Pigeons (one of Europe's famed shooting grounds), sowed mines in the sun-drenched beach. Even now Prince Louis could hear the lethal crump! crump! as Allied engineers exploded the mines...