Word: viper
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Thus died a man with the face of a gargoyle and the disposition of a viper, a cruelly violent Mafia chieftain who ruthlessly ruled the Chicago underworld for nearly ten years. Giancana had retired from active Mob affairs several years ago. But he recently recovered his notoriety because of the revelation that he had been recruited for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1960 to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro (see following story). Indeed, the Senate committee investigating the CIA was considering calling Giancana to testify, and had already subpoenaed his lieutenant in the plot, John Roselli, to appear this week...
...Vietnamese elections this year under the Thieu-Ky regime is democratic even though political intimidation and exclusion have made those elections a hoax even now. All right-the war must be opposed on all levels, but while all that money and power is being bled into the American political viper the military destruction of Asia will continue...
...about a viper named Winchell? JOHN G. HADDAD JR. St. Louis...
...famous essay, "The Lost Childhood," which dwells on the numerous delights of childhood reading. H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, Captain Gilson's The Pirate Aeroplane, Anthony (The Prisoner of Zenda] Hope's Sophy of Kravonia and Marjorie Bowen's The Viper of Milan were among Greene's favorites. The shape of villainy, the sense of impending doom soon intrude. Captain Gilson's book was dominated by a bad "Yankee pirate with an aeroplane like a box kite and bombs the size of tennis balls." The Viper, he admits, gave...
...trouble with heparin and some other anticoagulants is that they not only prevent clotting, but may overshoot the mark and make a patient liable to hemorrhage. Doctors in Malaya, treating victims of pit viper bites, noticed that they never seemed to have trouble with clots, and neither did they bleed excessively. Years of research to purify the active part of the venom yielded a substance named Arvin by London's Twyford Laboratories. Now, reports in the Lancet testify to the potential of Arvin, given intravenously...