Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the top of the unfinished 30-story Murr Tower, Beirut's tallest building, leftist Moslems fired a lethal .50-cal. Chinese machine gun at anything that moved in the center of the city. Some five blocks north, in the gilded Corniche area on the Mediterranean, right-wing Christian Phalangist forces occupied the Holiday Inn and other hotels and began firing from the luxury bedrooms in a desperate effort to hold ground. Answering rocket blasts tore apart the Inn's top two floors. Banks, shops and business offices were shuttered, few besides gunmen ventured onto the streets...
...lead levels can also be found in people who live near freeways, where auto exhausts pollute the air. High arsenic levels have been detected in children living near a copper smelter in Ruston, Wash. High levels of lead and other heavy metals, such as arsenic and mercury, are potentially lethal. Mercury poisoning, caused by industrial dumping of toxic compounds into a harbor, killed an estimated 300 people in the area around Minamata, Japan, and crippled almost 1,000 more...
...significant impact. City and local bonds everywhere are already facing higher interest rates, partly because of New York's condition. Should the city default, municipalities will have a hard time finding any investors at all. The chairman of the House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing is worried about "lethal fallout on the rest of the country and the world." Even Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, recently admitted that default could trigger a recession...
...better than the Azores, and so he jumped ship in San Francisco. That was back in 1845. Joseph brought with him a rare form of degenerative nerve disease. He died of it in his 40s, but before he died he fathered six children. His legacy to them has proved lethal. In the 130 years since Joseph entered the U.S., at least 48 of his 300 or so descendants have died of this fatal family malady...
Once again, all too unbelievably soon, the anguished national soul-searching. Is U.S. society too violence-prone, gun loving, trigger-happy to let its leaders mingle openly with its people? Is it so sick that it spawns and encourages the lethal fantasies of its alienated mental misfits? Once again, the indignant demands. Presidents must stop proving their manhood by barging into crowds of strangers or strolling within gunshot range of waiting spectators. The press must cease providing crazies with a podium for instant notoriety. Better ways must be found to protect the President. Somebody, if not all Americans, must bear...