Word: poisonously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters ring true, but they are not especially interesting. That, however, seems to be part of his strategy. The grayness of this humdrum world only makes the clashing colors of the Kabbelskis' lives more compelling. Keneally's real triumph is to portray, through one family's delusions, the lingering poison of war and betrayal among generations who outwardly appear to have escaped...
Since the poisoned painkiller had been enclosed within Tylenol's three tamper-resistant seals, investigators turned their attention to the plant in Fort Washington, Pa., where they were manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Products. The poison, with a different chemical makeup from the cyanide involved in the 1982 killings, differed as well from the cyanide stored at the plant for testing. The company also began a review of its storage and distribution facilities and personnel files of about 30,000 U.S. employees...
Police said they had no suspects and discounted a letter which claimed responsibility for the poisoning, demanded $2 million and threatened to poison other products. The man who admitted writing the note was charged only with an unrelated credit card fraud...
...Frank Young, FDA commissioner, said the department's Cincinnati laboratory had analyzed the contents of the second bottle and believed that the poison in both bottles came from the same source...
...could not say how the poison was introduced into the box. The seals and wrapping appeared to be unbroken...