Word: venom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
...blasts. A bomb exploded outside the home of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of the all-Negro Trinity-Lutheran Church, who has stood stoutly for integration. ("If I had a nickel for every time I've been called a nigger-loving s.o.b.," says Graetz, "I'd be independently wealthy.") Negro churches were also bombed...
...first published remarks on becoming King he asked his fellow Arabs, "Why don't we sacrifice 10 million of our number" to uproot Israel, which "to the Arab world is like a cancer to the human body." He has vowed Israel's destruction with a venom encouraged by Crown Prince Feisal, who took it as a personal insult when, as Saudi Arabia's U.N. delegate in 1947, he was outvoted in the Assembly. When Britain joined the Baghdad Pact, Saud promptly joined Nasser's bloc in opposition to the Western "imperialists," gave Syria a $10 million...
Fifth Day. The Anglo-French Canberras, Venom Mark 45 and Corsairs finished the destruction of the Egyptian air force on the ground, then turned to strafing and bombing Egyptian motor convoys and strategic points which might hinder the landing in the Canal Zone. In frustration, the Egyptians sank seven blockships at various points in the Suez Canal (they can later be dynamited out of the way). Bombers picked out the transmitter of the Cairo radio. (A standby transmitter was back on the air in an hour, however...
...well, reported Tulane University doctors. The tiny creature (from ⅛ to ¼ in. long, red with a black abdomen) has a savage sting that in mild cases causes a severe blister and swelling, sometimes accompanied by low fever and nausea; in some allergic individuals the sting, like bee venom, can cause anaphylactic shock, and there have been several deaths...