Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...province of Khuzistan. In addition, Iraq bombed several towns in northwestern Iran with Soviet-made fighters and bombers. Civilian casualties were estimated to be in the hundreds. Tehran also charged that Iraq had resorted to chemical warfare for the second time in a month, lobbing artillery shells filled with poison gas at Iranian troops. Thirteen people were said to have been killed and 40 others injured in that attack...
...have nationwide publicity. Now the $23.5 million film, due for release in December, is in trouble with the motion-picture industry's rating board. The eight board members have found Scarface so violent that they want to give it an X rating. To avoid that box-office poison, De Palma has already recut the movie four times, and now he claims that any additional cuts will destroy his "artistic vision." Universal, meanwhile, refuses to release the film in an X-rated form. The R-biters and X-aminers who looked at the director's latest cut last week...
...have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all plays that the unbeaten Crusaders may fall dead, and that the Gil Fenerty may be discharged of yards as violently as hasty passes fir'd doth hurry from Peter Muldoon's fatal cannon...
Davis has sent samples of the zombie potion to laboratories in Europe and the U.S., where in one experiment it induced a trancelike state in rats. Such research in the past led to the discovery of curare, an arrow poison from the Amazon now used to paralyze muscles during surgery. Tetrodotoxin may also one day find its place in the medical armamentarium. "People who have lived in the tropics for centuries have learned things about plants and animals that we have not fathomed," says Richard Evan Schultes, head of Harvard's renowned Botanical Museum. "We must not leave...
...ambitions, it now does not look so certain," they told Garland two years before the flags were to be set fluttering at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Coupled with the sour economic situation was a darkening political climate. Adolf Hitler, who was not yet in power but spreading his poison in Germany nonetheless, succeeded in blocking funds to send German competitors abroad: good Germans, he said, should not be mixing with foreigners...