Word: lethally
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...THREAT Thriller writers often confect plots that turn on the poisoning of a city's water supply with a few tablets of some very lethal substance. But while the idea has a long history (Roman legionnaires tossed animal corpses into the water supplies of their enemies), the tactic isn't very practical. Even in high concentrations, germs would probably be quickly diluted in a large reservoir, if not killed off later during chlorination...
...TOXINS ENTER CELL The entire complex, encased in a bubble, drops into the cell and starts ejecting its lethal cargo...
...Indeed, they have. In that same month George Bush signed a secret intelligence finding giving the agency the green light to assassinate bin Laden and, with the help of special ops commandos, to employ lethal force against anyone in his worldwide terror network. It?s all part of the other war now being waged - the war not seen on television screens with Pentagon briefings and gun camera videos of targets destroyed in Afghanistan. It's the war being conducted in secret to take down the terror network that bin Laden has spread into more than 50 countries...
...rooms, there is a growing belief that the strategy for winning this war requires at least as much ruthlessness as the carpet-bombing B-52s displayed last week, and probably much more. A senior U.S. official in Pakistan says American ground forces will ultimately need to mount lethal raids in the heart of Taliban country, to prove to the regime that the U.S. is willing and able to cut them down. Facing off against the Taliban on its turf won't be easy, and the human toll could be horrific. But that's the point in a merciless war. Last...
...seen the thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement that comes with one’s first time squeezing rounds from a lethal weapon. But when trigger-time comes, you never get to hear about the gun mystique, because the author actually passes out and ends the chapter without firing a single round...