Word: poison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently resisted the brainwashing. At one interview attended by the reporters and 14 senior Chinese army officers, a Vietnamese staff sergeant defiantly denounced "the reactionary Peking clique" and accused China of using "gas" against Vietnamese hiding in caves during the war. "What kind of gas?" asked a reporter. "Poison gas," came the angry and loud reply. At this point pandemonium broke out. A Chinese officer jumped up and bellowed something at the interpreter, who in turn shouted at the Vietnamese sergeant. The reporters were quickly ushered out of the room...
...willing to live with large amounts of one of these chemicals, a compound called 2,3,7,8 tetrachlo-rodibenzo-p-dioxin, also known as dioxin. The attitude may prove suicidal. A common contaminant of several widely used herbicides, dioxin is so deadly that a few ounces could poison whole communities...
...determination of the chemical manufacturing industry to continue production and sale of the herbicide, by bureaucratic backing and filling . . . and by the Government's own indecisiveness." Nor has there been much concern about the 1976 catastrophe that ruined the Italian town of Seveso, or about discovery of the poison in a chemical soup found in a landfill near Niagara Falls, N.Y. - and in the bodies of nearby residents...
They've got Pony League catching, but the talent of the amazing Jack Clark, Bill Madlock, Darrel Evans and Mike "Poison" Ivie should pull them through...
Woman: O.K. There's nothing to worry about. Everybody keep calm and try and keep your children calm. Let the little children in and reassure them. [The children are given the poison first.] They're not crying from pain; it's just a little bitter-tasting...