Word: poisonous
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Nothing, however, will rival the day that Ball opened a package addressed to Harvard and found only black rosary beads and a sweat sock "When I first got this. I wasn't sure whether there was something had inside like poison. You never know what's in the letters," he says...
...understand this preoccupation with the "humane way" to execute killers. What compassion do they show the victims whom they dispatch with gun, knife, ax, club or poison...
Then, two days before Christmas, the Federal Government released Environmental Protection Agency findings that oil mixed with the deadly poison dioxin, sprayed on unpaved streets a decade ago as a seemingly harmless means to hold down dust, had left dangerous concentrations of the chemical in the soil. But since the EPA samples were taken before Dec. 5, it is still unclear whether the flood waters washed away much of the chemical, making Times Beach safer, or unearthed more dioxin, spreading it throughout the town. The EPA plans new tests, scheduled for this week...
...focusing on the "ethical questions" raised by a doctor's participation in taking Brook's life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more "humane" than giving him a lethal dose of electricity or forcing him to inhale poison...
Meanwhile, the turn toward politeness in U.S.-Soviet discourse has some value in itself. Angry and threatening exchanges generate their own momentum, and they can poison the atmosphere for any serious discussion. Civility costs nothing, and while it is far from sufficient to assure successful dealings, it can help make them possible...