Word: poison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
American intelligence experts have long suspected that chemical poisons developed in the Soviet Union have been used in military operations in Afghanistan, Laos and Cambodia. Eyewitnesses in all three countries have reported seeing "yellow rain" fall from the skies. Shortly afterward, victims on the ground have suffered burning sensations, convulsions and massive internal bleeding. Many have died painful deaths. Still, there had never been scientific evidence that the poison came from the Soviet Union. So the U.S. has withheld any official accusation of Soviet violations of a 56-year-old international agreement banning chemical weapons...
Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband I should flavor your coffee with poison. Churchill: Madam, if I were your husband I should drink...
...resolved to become their historian. As he wrote: "I have flown to their rescue-not of their lives or of their race (for they are 'doomed' and must perish), but to the rescue of their looks and their modes, at which the acquisitive world may hurl poison and every besom of destruction, and trample them down and crush them to death; yet, phoenix-like, they may rise ... and live again upon canvas...
...Owner Roarty tries to kill his philandering barman Eamonn Bales with a toadstool omelet. When the poison fails, the publican does in the cad with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...environmentalists and businessmen are closely watching the case for an early sign of Administration policy. Reagan officials have been promising that the new Washington rule makers will consider both the costs and benefits of regulations in deciding issues like the outlawing of Compound 1080. The battle concerning a coyote poison is thus turning into a conflict between businessmen and environmentalists over the role of Government regulation...