Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually prepared by the cook to kill Pasha. This inscrutable animal lives on, after the youth is dead, a silent, stately monopolist of morbidly curious attention, in the minds of the English protagonists...
...recalled that the demented woman, now 50, once said that she attempted to commit suicide "for the glory of God." Sitting in her cell at Rome, her face and neck scratched, her dress untidy, she declared: "Supernatural forces entrusted me with the lofty mission of attempting to kill Mussolini...
...marching onward. If I advance, follow me. If I retire, kill me. If I am killed, avenge...
...Developed for smallpox by Edward Jenner (1749-1823). In all vaccinations the patient is deliberately given a mild attack of the particular disease he wants to guard against. The blood then develops certain properties which kill off the attacks of that disease, except in the very greatest concentrations...
...swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood it was clean. Little possibility of infection. The child probably would live...