Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an umbrella. The encounter looked as harmless as the weather; in fact, it was to recall the more lurid adventures of 007. For the foreigner was Bulgarian Georgi Markov, the stranger was a hired assassin, and the umbrella tip held a pellet loaded with ricin, a deadly poison. The notorious "umbrella murder" occurred because of the information contained in this chilling memoir, written after the author's defection...
...framers do that?" continued Mondale. "Because they saw in Europe that every time you let the politicians interfere with religious faith, it was poison and it destroyed its integrity and independence, and that politicians were always posturing and interfering...
...hazardous. As yet, divers taking daily readings of the water have not detected any signs of leaking radioactivity. More worrisome is the uranium's volatility: should it mix with water, it would be transformed chemically into an acid that could easily explode. Loose in the sea, it could poison any marine life near by. Warns Shoja Etamad, a nuclear engineer based in Paris: "No one really knows what happens when you deal with quantities on this scale...
...even glimpses the dried-up bed of Lake Texcoco, now edged with miles of slum hovels, the first thing he sees is an almost perpetual blanket of smog that shrouds the entire city. It is an ugly grayish brown. There is something strangely sinister about it-a cloud of poison. The pilot orders the seat belts tightened and announces an imminent descent into the murk and filth...
...prostitute makes her famous and her grandmother rich; soldiers and senators pay dearly for her favors. Only a young man named Ulysses has the key to her chaste heart. He will free Erendira by killing Grandma-he will try, anyway, with a knife, explosives and a ton of rat poison-but the tenacious crone is as hard to dispatch as Rasputin, or the Roadrunner, or a nightmare of repression...