Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poison has been rebottled by leftist groups and labeled anti-Zionism," Dershowitz said. He added, the Soviet Union is the most prominent source of the new propaganda being disseminated by a variety of leftist groups, which promote their causes by attacking Israel...
...result, the poisons have turned up in surprising places. Not far from home plate at New York City's Shea Stadium, a festering pond containing PCB, toluene, benzene and DDT turns red, blue or green as the mixture of the waste changes. The mess is so flammable that the pool has caught fire twice in the past year. In the marshes around New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex, home of the pro football Giants, some 200 tons of mercury residues have contaminated Berry's Creek, causing Selikoff to declare, "On a bad day, breathing in the Meadowlands...
...Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even a Day of the Dolphin-all equally preposterous and plausible, thanks to the strapped imaginations of real-life bureaucrats. Who but a hack could have thought up 1978's Bulgarian defector "poison umbrella" caper in London? The first time a dolphin is hauled in for questioning, who will giggle...
...Gucci Two-Shoes; she replies, "I didn't want to upstage my own performance." Charlene Tilton, 20, plays Lucy, the Ewing niece, as if she were really the love child of Mae West. The British press has a nickname for this tiny terror of Southfork: "the Poison Dwarf." When asked her response to those who call Dallas classy trash, she laughs with wide, wicked eyes: "Honey, they can call it whatever they want...
...scientists from the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, challenged the prevailing wisdom. It said that there was no reason for healthy adults to decrease dietary cholesterol and, in a slap at diet faddists, added: "Good food . . . should not be reguarded as a poison, a medicine, or a talisman. It should be eaten and enjoyed...