Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a tantalizing mystery, more even than random terror. The Tylenol murders had the true Kafkaesque quality of a nightmare become real, of vague dreads taking on form and solidity in cold daylight. Such thoughts gripped Americans last week as poison scares spread around the nation, seemingly promising leads dissolved, and the hunt for the person who had put the cyanide into capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that killed seven people in the Chicago area two weeks ago made little progress...
...surprisingly, sales of painkillers of every sort slumped. Poison-control centers around the country were flooded by calls from jittery citizens. Police all over the U.S. looked with extra care into every case, new or old, that might conceivably be related to the Chicago-area poisonings. Results: a number of false alarms that for a time looked like either similar cases or promising leads...
Things have yet to get that bad in the real English Department. Both tenured woman on its faculty were in fine health at last report, and no poison stronger than sherry has been discovered in Warren House...
Recently nicknamed Governor Moonbeam, because his policies change as often as the moon changes phases. Brown's reign has alienated many Californians. Several issues have pulled at his fingernails. Many felt he mishandled the Medfly crisis by hesitating before spraying infested areas fast enough with ample poison, and Brown's flings into Presidential politics also earned him much animosity, because he spent excessive amounts of time out of Sacramento. His judicial appointments have met fierce opposition from those who object to the liberal bent of his appointees. Finally, his well publicized private life has occasionally surfaced as a source...
...muscle tissue and travels in the blood to the lungs, where it does continual damage as long as it remains in the body. After steadily declining in a Florida hospital, Wilson was transferred to Montefiore in a final effort to save his life. There, doctors continued to remove the poison from his system by filtering his blood through charcoal. But it was too late; the paraquat had already done drastic harm to Wilson's lungs. His only hope: a lung transplant...