Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more thorough investigation, the Los Angeles police decided that the similarities were largely superficial-and perhaps intentional-and that the crimes were probably unconnected except by the publicity given the first one. There were, for example, no sexual overtones to the LaBianca deaths. The lethal weapons, including a meat-carving fork, were left in the LaBianca house. None were found at the scene of the first crime...
...Strain tells of how a group of super-scientists (at least one of whom is a toned-down version of J. D. Watson) set to work in a secret, five-story, underground bacterial research center in Nevada--part of "Project Wildfire." Their object is to identify and neutralize a lethal virus brought back from the upper atmosphere by a Scoop satellite that has crashed in the middle of the Arizona desert. Since the enterprising virus multiplies at a giddy rate, they must, of course, do in the thing by the time it gets to Phoenix. From the very first chapter...
Storr buttressed his argument that latent cruelty exists in most normal individuals by referring to experiments which have shown that normal American college students will apply lethal doses of electric shock to human subjects if they are told to do so by their instructors. He also added that 80 per cent of the pornographic material enjoyed by the general public is sado-masochistic in nature...
...growing numbers of scientists and politicians are convinced that Müller's miracle is more curse than cure. Long after exterminating the bugs at which it is aimed, DDT goes on performing its lethal work, washing from fields into rivers, lingering on the leaves of trees, floating about in the atmosphere for years-and contaminating everything it touches. There are some scientists who estimate that as much as two-thirds of the 1.5 million tons of DDT produced by man may still be adrift...
...good deal of public confidence might be restored, for example, if the White House appointed a citizens' commission of scientists, doctors and laymen to monitor developments in CBW. An alternative might be a joint congressional committee. Such a body might also report periodically on the levels of lethal agents being stockpiled, as well as the safety of their storage and transportation. It is past time for the Pentagon to acknowledge that there are legitimate doubts about chemical and biological weapons...