Word: poisonous
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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...
...publicity caused a nationwide scare. One Chicago hospital received 700 calls about Tylenol in one day. People in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other cities were hospitalized on suspicion of cyanide poisoning. Dr. William Robertson, director of the Poison Control Center in Seattle, offered some grim words of reassurance: "If it was going to be a lethal dose, you wouldn't have time to call...
...year. An $85 million advertising campaign has helped the company increase its share of the pain-reliever market from 4% to 37% since 1976. But the cyanide scare may do damage to the company's product. Says one stockbroker in Chicago: "The name Tylenol is now linked with poison in people's minds...
...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...