Word: lethalness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...siding in the town of Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 2,000) last week, slowly dripping one of the deadliest of poisons. Four years ago the oily, yellowish liquid was bought as surplus from the Army's Chemical Corps (which had used it during World War II to make lethal Lewisite gas) by a company which planned to use one of its derivatives in drilling oil wells. Later the company went out of business, leaving the cargo unclaimed...
...tenth hole of Cape Cod's Eastward Ho! course, with an uphill green, left-hander Colcord teed off using a lethal brassie. Having neglected to shout "fore," and because he lost the ball in a bright sun, Colcord braced himself for an expected embroglio as the preceding foursome turned and set at him with high-pitched shouts...
...characters. A Brooklyn bumpkin named Knucklehead Smiff is now getting a big buildup. But Jerry, a redhaired, eye-rolling twelve-year-old, remains a scene stealer whose small-boy enthusiasms (Winchell reads comic books to keep in style) and good-natured sauciness (but none of Charlie McCarthy's lethal impudence) surmount the reality that he is actually 25 Ibs. of whitewood, metal and rubber, with rods, latches, levers, springs, glass eyes and a broomstick spine...
...into two camps under U.S. Army and Marine guards. If a breakout is attempted anyway, Clark (with Washington's backing) has ordered the camp commanders not to shoot to kill or wound, but to fire into the air or the ground and to use non-lethal gases. If most or all of the 8,000 escape in spite of these measures, Clark considers this a lesser evil. Reason: the Communists have already shown that they care much less about the 27,000 already turned loose than about U.S. ability to get on with a truce...
...fine baby. With proper feeding and education he might have overcome the handicap of having four hands and become, like his father Douglas Templemore, a British newspaperman. But the world was not destined to know. Garry was a mere 24 hours old when his father gave him a lethal shot of strychnine...