Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheerful caretaker of the lethal flora is Dr. Guy Hartman, a veteran pediatrician. He started the garden a year and a half ago, not as a grim joke, but as a serious "consciousness-raising" project to make people aware of the hazardous side of the nation's infatuation with horticulture. Last year at least 12,000 Americans were poisoned by plants, some of them fatally. Most of these cases stemmed not from rare, unfamiliar species, but from such garden-variety types as the poinsettia, holly, mistletoe, wisteria and even rhubarb...
...large part of the controversy over the British-French Concorde arises from concern about the big jets' effect on the ozone layer, which protects life on earth from lethal doses of ultraviolet light. Laboratory tests and chemical theory have shown that the nitrogen oxides given off by jet engines destroy ozone. Do nitrogen oxides have the same effect in the stratosphere? A Dutch meteorologist working at Boulder, Colo., reports there is now evidence that the answer...
...I.S.A. Isaksen of NOAA, T.E. Holzer of NCAR and Crutzen suggest that the solar particles may not directly wreak their havoc on life during magnetic field reversals. Instead, unobstructed by the field, they may deplete the ozone layer by as much as 50% by creating nitrogen oxides, letting in lethal doses of ultraviolet light...
World War II found Christie again practicing pharmacy and brushing up on the latest lethal drugs. Poison was a preferred method of dispatching a victim-frequently "in quiet family surroundings." She continued to publish one or two novels a year, often plotting them in a hot bath while eating apples. There was scarcely a time when her work was not before the public, not only on book jackets but in the credits of such stage and film works as Witness for the Prosecution and Ten Little Indians...
...natural substances are more lethal than the toxin of the poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides. Commonly known as the death cap, it causes, after a day's delay, severe abdominal pain, followed by diarrhea, cramps and vomiting and finally liver failure and central nervous damage. In Europe, where mushroom collecting has long been a favorite hobby of gourmets, the hard-to-identify Amanita phalloides accounts for perhaps 95% of the dozens of deaths that occur every year from mushroom poisoning of some kind. Until recently the death cap was considered relatively rare in North America, and only a few cases...