Word: poisonous
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Conclusive results cannot be obtained until more refined methods of determining the presence of the poison are discovered...
GLOBAL PROBLEM. Because some pollutants are killers, fear has begun to reinforce a vague feeling that life is slipping out of control. Take mercury, a poison that can destroy brain and nerve cells. Last spring dangerous concentrations of the metal were found in fish from the Great Lakes region. By year's end, mercury had also turned up in tuna, swordfish and Arctic seals. Suddenly it seemed clear that the poison, an industrial waste, had tainted the oceans to an alarming if still unknown degree...
...satanic carnival; wide panoramas, like the scene in the brickyard in Dombey and Son, where the city lies on the horizon like a vast, destructive machine; dreamlike overhead views, like the dawn in Little Dorrit, where the news of Financier Merdle's suicide spreads through the town like poison through an organism...
...Presumably, Coco Chanel also trusts Lerner.) The title role, naturally, is far more ticklish. The novel described Lolita as a "mixture of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity." And, as Humbert said, "you have to be an artist and a madman with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in order to discern by certain ineffable signs the little deadly demon among the wholesome children...
...writer, who crafts promotion slogans and monthly gag tapes taken by many stations. Usually identifying themselves as "The Fun One" in their towns, these subscribers broadcast intermittent programming spoofs ("Notre Dame 20, William and Mary 6 each") and sappy little one-liners ("I know my wife is trying to poison me−she wants me to eat at home...