Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese: "We don't want money, anyway, wei want to kill." Some Chinese Nationalist friends of Consul Davis next arrived, carrying a Nationalist flag. This appeared to displease the attacking Chinese who seized the flag, tore it to shreds, and moved to attack Socony Hall. "My husband," said Mrs. Davis later, "shouted: 'Men, get your guns! Guard the women! Send...
...object of war is to put the enemy out of fighting condition just as soon as possible, and the only way to do that is to kill its men", said the General with no compunction whatsoever. "Poisonous gases do that, and do it very quickly; that is why I think they will have much influence in deciding the outcome of the next...
...Austrian hero lived on the largesse of women, stole their greatest treasures, beat them with sticks and fists. But they still loved him with ardor. His mistress (Gertrude Short) deserted him for the villain, buc decided she had made a bad second choice. Jealous the villain tries to kill the hero with a nasty gila monster but fails. Good cast, poor acting, fair entertainment...
...assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred other matters. Uncertainty makes him surly and surliness alienates his educated children, hastening their departure and his decline from...
...this provision, which was not emphasized when the policy was first made public, should serve to kill the plan, there would be few to praise it. But this is hardly likely. It is far more to be expected that it will alleviate the pangs of transition between one method and the other. That such a radical change as this could be effected with no academic mortality it would be absurd to comtemplate, and the gradual substitution, of the new reading period for lectures should do much to reduce this mortality...