Word: aforethought
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Repudiating his lawyers and demanding that they be fired, Sirhan spoke in quavering tones: "I killed Robert Kennedy willfully, premeditatively, with 20 years of malice aforethought." "Well," snapped Walker, "the evidence has to be proved here in court...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. The mayhem in this nimble comedy about a man who gets drunk and marries without malice aforethought is plotted by Jack Lemmon, whose fracturingly funny performance is smoothly supported by Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi, an import who makes hard-sell sex seem as classy as caviar...
Frost encouraged the display, partly because of a lifelong hunger for public regard, and partly, it is reasonable to suppose, with privacy aforethought. The more the honors are heaped, the less chance of too-personal prying into the man at the heap's bottom. "I have written," he once confided to his friend John Bartlett, "to keep the overcurious out of the secret places of my mind, both in my verse and in my letters...
Ruby, 52, shot Lee Harvey Oswald "with malice aforethought"-and not, as the defense argued, in a fit of momentary insanity brought on by grief over President Kennedy's death...
...came to terms with American independence in 1783, the fighting ceased in the populous east. But west of the Appalachians, the frontier settlements found themselves still at war. Indians, supplied and encouraged by the British, attacked forts, raided settlements and terrorized isolated settlers. The British, with well-conceived malice aforethought, were trying hard to stem the westward surge of the energetic new Americans. They came in on foot along Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road or down the Ohio River on flatboats. A flatboat, though little more than a raft thrown together at the headwaters of the Ohio...