The silent killer (continued)

[Laurence Horn]

I wonder which killers these silent ones are implicitly being contrasted
with.  Especially with the drop in the murder rates.  Maybe these coiners
are all thinking about...
GODZILLA:  THE NOISY KILLER.

Larry

At 7:55 PM -0400 7/24/99, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>     I previously posted that a South African newspaper described AIDS as
>"the silent killer."  OCLC Worldcat has 130 titles for "silent killer"--here
>are some.  The phrase (perhaps first used for hypertension and high blood
>pressure) picked up speed in 1970, but was quickly applied to almost every
>disease in the 1980s and 1990s:
>
>SILENT KILLER (1959)--U.S. Dept. of Agriculture film on the spruce budworm, a
>silent killer that can destroy a forest.
>HYPERTENSION: THE SILENT KILLER (1970).
>HYPERTENSION: THE SILENT KILLER (1975).
>THE SILENT KILLER: A CALL TO FITNESS (1977).
>VACCINATION, THE SILENT KILLER (1977).
>THE SILENT KILLER (HYPERTENSION) (1979).
>COLD WATER, THE SILENT KILLER (1981).
>THE SILENT KILLER: LONG TERM STRESS MANAGEMENT (1981).
>EMOTIONAL ABUSE: THE SILENT PERSONALITY KILLER (1985).
>HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE (THE SILENT KILLER) (1985).
>HYPERTENSION: THE INSIDE STORY ON THIS SILENT KILLER (1985).
>OSTEOPOROSIS: THE SILENT KILLER (1985).
>THE SILENT KILLER, AIDS (1986).
>AIDS: SILENT KILLER (1987).
>ASBESTOS IN OUR SCHOOLS: TAMING THE SILENT KILLER (1987).
>CHOLESTEROL: ANOTHER SILENT KILLER (1987).
>SLOW DEATH: WORK, THE SILENT KILLER (1998).
>CANDIDA YEAST INFECTION: THE SILENT KILLER (1988).
>HYPOTHERMIA: THE SILENT KILLER (1989).
>OVERCOMING STRESS, THE SILENT KILLER (1989).
>COCAINE, THE SILENT KILLER (1990).
>EMPLOYEE DEPRESSION, "THE SILENT KILLER OF AMERICAN BUSINESS" (1990).
>WORRY, THE SILENT KILLER (1991).
>CANINE HEARTWORM DISEASE: THE SILENT KILLER (1992).
>CLOSTRIDIAL ENTERITIS: "THE SILENT KILLER" (1992).
>HEPATITIS: THE SILENT KILLER (1995).
>SILENT KILLER: PROPERTY TAXATION (1995).
>HEARING ON PROSTATE CANCER: THE SILENT KILLER (U.S. Senate, 1997).
>DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS: THE SILENT KILLER (1997).
>FIGHTING THE SILENT KILLER (OVARIAN CANCER) (1998).
>HEPATITIS C: THE SILENT KILLER (1998).
>CARBON MONOXIDE: A SILENT KILLER (1999).
>
>     This will all be explained in detail in my new book: READING: THE SILENT
>KILLER.