Word: poisonous
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...local Solidarity farm manager. In Tarnobrzeg province, 180,000 stayed off the job because of inadequate food supplies. And in southern Sosnowiec, near Katowice, angry miners launched an open-ended strike to protest a bizarre incident in which some 70 people were injured when four bottles of poison gas were hurled at a mine entrance from a speeding...
Enterprising Spanish importers figured they would find another market for the oil by reversing the "denaturing" process that had transformed it into industrial oil, simultaneously making it unfit for human consumption. Apparently, some distributors botched the reversal process and unwittingly created a deadly poison. But the adulterated oil was already on the market, being peddled by door-to-door salesmen who unsuspectingly offered their lethal wares as a bargain for hard-pressed families. At about $5.50 for a 5-gal. plastic container, the oil cost 25% less than a comparable amount of olive...
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...
...State Department is still reluctant to level public accusations at the Soviet Union. Some officials would like to do so on the humane grounds that public disclosure might prevent further use of the poison and avoid more such deaths in both Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. More cautious U.S. officials prefer to await similar verification that the chemical has been used in both Laos and Afghanistan...
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...