Word: viper
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...goof ball is not a marijuana smoker (weed-head, viper, tea-hound, herb). A goof ball is a nemmie (from Nembutal, trade name for a certain barbiturate), Geronimo, bomber, or any other barbiturate or sleeping pill...
Instead of exposing himself to deadly snakes to test the serum, Philpot bought rattlesnake and moccasin venom in powdered form. Then he went to work on mice. He found that a mouse could be injected with 2½ to 3½ times the lethal dose of viper venom, and still survive if promptly given an injection of king snake serum. Better yet, he found that his king snake extract was three to four times more effective than a commercial preparation made, by a far more difficult process, from the blood of venom-injected horses...
With mounting amazement, the anthropologists drove through the silent streets between crumbling mosques, forts and palaces. They found no footprints, no campfire ashes, no signs that modern men had ever entered the place. The only living creature they saw was a desert viper...
...attention-for "these curiosities," he said, "would be quite forgotten, did not such idle fellows as me putt them downe." From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing a pipe...
Said Churchill: "It was only . . . when all the [German] preparations being made on the coasts of France and Holland could be examined in detail . . . that we knew how grave had been the peril. . . . Only just in time did the Allied armies blast the viper in his nest. Otherwise the autumn of 1944 . . . might well have seen London as shattered as Berlin...