Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with no more punishment than a few chiding words from presiding judges, Adelabu was believed to have a charmed life. A hundred thousand mourners gathered for his funeral, and the rumor spread among them that their leader's death had been caused by Ibeju witch doctors using a lethal juju so powerful and selective that it killed Adelabu but preserved the lives of the occupants of the car that had crashed with his. Thousands of fanatics ranged the streets, beating up political opponents of the Ibadan People's Party, burning their houses, setting fire to cars parked...
...token cut (to 35) has been made in the number of maternity beds to reduce overcrowding. Three rooms are being readied to replace the lethal nursery. But officials admit that these measures may prove useless: the whole maternity service may have to be moved to a new, clean, staph-free location...
...Lethal Gifts. The F.L.N. insists that the bulk of its arms do not come from Tunisia at all but are picked up in raids on French military posts in Algeria. But among the rifles found on dead or captured rebels, a high percentage are LeeEnfield .303s, which presumably come from the Suez Canal arms depots that Egypt seized from the British after the Suez invasion. Increasingly common, too, are old French small arms, apparently supplied by the Syrians, whose army has been recently re-equipped with up-to-date Czech weapons. Both Egypt and Syria, say French intelligence officers, ship...
...psychiatrists, Dr. P. Herbert Liberman, Dr. Jack Mendelson, Dr. Donald Wexler and Dr. Philip Solomon, included in their report a study of the personalities of the alcoholics. An attempt was made to determine the reasons for their willingness to drink substances which they knew to be lethal...
...close intersection of Plympton St. with Bow and Mt. Auburn Sts. appears to be taking the lead in the competition for "most Lethal Corner in Cambridge." Two automobiles collided there late Saturday night, in the week's second accident on the two streets...