Word: poisonous
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...lady yelled "I am a foreigner!" to alert her Russian accomplice, who was lurking near by, the agents examined the stone she had left at the dead drop. Cleverly concealed inside were espionage instructions, miniature cameras, Soviet currency and gold. Most damning were two ampuls of a deadly poison. Peterson was charged with passing them to a Russian contact who allegedly had used the same poison in an earlier CIA plot to kill an innocent...
...beard and a bun of graying hair tucked under a shepherd's cap, turns out to be Bob Richardson, a former candymaker from the Atlantic City, N.J., area. Richardson gave up the trade to become a sawmill worker after some health food fanatics convinced him that candy is poison. Now he lives in Rumney, N.H. (pop. 820) with his three sheep. Says he: "A neighbor had these two, and they were going to be slaughtered if they weren't sold. So we bought them. We didn't know it, but the ewe had been bred...
...only have the number of payments proliferated, but they increase in size with rising inflation−and they contribute to inflation by pumping out money to people who do not produce goods and services. Moreover, any effort to curb them is regarded as political poison. Yet until some way is found to reduce the growth of transfer payments, the chances of containing Government spending are slight...
...chemical that most efficiently killed the poppies was an acid known as 2.4-D. The best marijuana spray was a more toxic salt, paraquat, developed by Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries; it is a poison that becomes tasteless, odorless and colorless after it is sprayed on crops. As little as one-tenth of an ounce of paraquat can kill humans who swallow it. Lesser amounts can cause scarring of the lungs, which can lead to an irreversible condition called pulmonary fibrosis. The herbicide can also cause lung hemorrhaging and vomiting...
...council action is good because it will alert people to the danger, but it doesn't get close to the root of the problem, which is that the government is spending millions of tax dollars to poison the very citizens who've paid the tax," Joshua S. Grossman, executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, said yesterday...