Word: die
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Kerrihard's project emphasizes social and behavioral issues, as opposed to technical or clinical issues, involved in the wish to die in terminally ill patients...
...choking sounds and rough, saliva-spraying sibilants. (A handkerchief is recommended for novice speakers.) The idiom of a warrior culture, Klingon doesn't have words for "nice" or "pretty" or even "hello" -- the standard greeting is "What do you want?" (nuqneH?). But if you want to say "Surrender or die!" and sound like you mean it, Klingon...
...holds no plans," the defense claims. "What you see here is a thing . . . to hold the handle of a plow, a thing to load your bales of cotton, a thing to dig your ditches, to chop your wood, to pull your corn." In effect, Jefferson is not condemned to die like a man but be destroyed like a beast. Worse still, he believes that he is no better than a dumb animal...
...world before returning south to teach at the black grammar school. Burdened with his own frustrations, not the least of which is downplaying his intelligence and college education when dealing with whites, Wiggins reluctantly undertakes to instruct Jefferson in his humanity. In short, to teach him how to die...
...carjackings are a daily concern, voters are wondering how many of the nation's 200 million guns are pointed at them. Or at their children. In Los Angeles schools last year 405 guns were confiscated -- 28 of them in elementary schools. In Louisiana and Texas more people now die from gunshot wounds than from car accidents...