Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liston tore fato Clay with a vicious array of blows. Sonny landed a left and a right to the body, a hard left to the jaw and followed this with a rare right uppercut. The third round was the only one in which Liston displayed the lethal effectiveness of his Patterson triumphs. That he did not lay Cassius low in the third provides some substance to Liston's contention that his left arm was already badly injured. Crippled or not, Sonny obviously took the round...
Since 1955, when the Joint Committee on Aviation Pathology of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington began recording cases of pilot death at the controls, the lethal list has grown to 20. Sometimes it is possible for an alert copilot to take over the controls and save the plane. But if the pilot's attack occurs during the final approach-in those tense seconds just before a plane touches down-it may be too late for anyone to help. And if there is only one pilot, as in many military and private planes, one heart attack...
Drawing-room duels, in literature as in life, seldom seem lethal. But in Miss Sarraute's special world, all the characters appear flayed alive in advance. Like the cartoon creatures of Jules Feiffer, they fear nothing so much as loneliness; they long to make human contact. But when they plunge together, each touch inevitably is anguish...
...researchers have preliminary evidence that what happens in the test tube also happens in rats. Drugged animals simply cannot metabolize alcohol. Presumably drugged humans face the same problem. Thus an ordinary sedative dose of a barbiturate may combine with an ordinary intoxicating amount of liquor to leave behind a lethal dose of nerve-depressant alcohol...
...such talk seemed to many, particularly in Britain, a considerable overstatement. Author-Critic Richard Hoggart expressed the belief that there had been no conspiracy at all and added: "For all kinds of historical reasons, America is much more hospitable to extremism. And there is the extraordinary availability of lethal weapons. So the paranoiac, instead of throwing himself off Waterloo Bridge, looks down his telescopic sights." Even Texas found its defenders, in a rough and ready way. Said London University's History Professor Harry Allen: "You don't conquer a great land, you don't drive off Indians...