Word: poisonous
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...19th century linguist and imperialist advance man, was an entire garden of delights. Gerald Hanley, the novelist and screenwriter (The Blue Max), is no Burton, although at one point in this memoir he claims to have succeeded where Burton failed-in discovering the secret of Wabaio, a potent arrow poison...
...most mammals to the hemorrhagic properties of anticoagulants. These are the chemicals used medicinally to protect human victims of heart attacks and strokes against the recurrence of dangerous blood clotting; overdoses can cause fatal internal bleeding. The best known anticoagulant, warfarin, is used in calculated overdoses as a rat poison. In 1968 a two-nation team began work at the National Livestock Research Institute in Mexico City and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Wildlife Research Center in Denver to try to kill bats with an anticoagulant. Choosing the poison-diphenadione-was one thing...
...vampires lick themselves to clean their reddish-brown fur, and they are as clubby as monkeys, eagerly grooming each other. One researcher reasoned that it would be effective to catch a few vampires, daub them with diphenadione, then release them to return home and bleed to death-and incidentally poison their grooming partners...
Well Groomed. Shocked, the bat returns to his roost in a cave, hollow tree or old building, and licks as much of the goo off his back as he can. In the process he poisons himself fatally. Other vampires come to help groom him, and so poison themselves. A single smeared bat has been found to cause, on the average, the death of 20 others, sometimes as many...
...Fischer's juvenile act was a better show than the game itself. On the 29th move, Fischer took one of Spassky's pawns-but it was a "poison pawn," since its capture led to the loss of one of Fischer's bishops. The audience gasped, and even the normally impassive Spassky looked incredulous. By common agreement, Fischer's move was one of the most inexplicable lapses in the history of grand-master chess. "A beginner's blunder," said one Fischer admirer-and 27 moves later, it cost Fischer the game...