Word: toxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists contended that since the use of chemical and biological weapons is directed against a country's civilian population "it does not serve our national interest, and is immoral." They defined chemical weapons as those toxic to men, animals, and plants...
Since World War II, says Thorwald, the problem of poisons has gotten dangerously out of hand. Hundreds of toxic agents are now available to millions as pesticides, cleansers, barbiturates and tranquilizers, and many cannot at present be detected in a cadaver. The mod ern world, in Thorwald's opinion, has become a poisoner's paradise in which do-it-yourself-death is on sale at the nearest supermarket-in the handy-dandy family size...
...filth," says John W. Gardner, the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. U.S. rivers and streams, like the muddy Missouri, used to be contaminated with nothing worse than silt, some salt, and the acids from mines. Now they are garbage dumps. Raw sewage, scrap paper, ammonia compounds, toxic chemicals, pesticides, oil and grease balls as big as a human fist-these are the unsavory contents of thousands of miles of U.S. waterways...
Once again world headlines blared the story and Hanoi yelled that the U.S. was using "toxic gas." Utter found his decision to try gas again under investigation, even though tear gas has remained regular issue for all Marine units. Unless Washington orders otherwise, Lieut. Colonel Utter is likely to fare kindly at the hands of U.S. brass in Saigon. Privately, most of them think that he did the right thing under the circumstances-and that a reluctance to use tear gas is an unnecessary and even inhumane restriction in doing what is one of the most unpleasant and difficult jobs...
...poison has been found in them. Suffocation is the more likely cause of death since decomposing raw sewage dumped into the river at Kansas City had used up an inordinate amount of the Missouri's oxygen. Future kills may yet be traced to insecticides, some of which are toxic to fish in amounts that are harmless to humans. If so, Government authorities may be forced to choose between the interests of catfish and farmers...