Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Persian. A large part of the territory was known before and during the War as Armenia. The Kurds are a fierce, lawless people or whom the late Sultan Abdul Hamid II placed much reliance for the internal peace of his shaking Empire. Now that there are an Armenians to kill (they have been driver from the country, exchanged and massacred) it was suggested that the Kurds have nov turned to killing the Turks...
...exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself and if he is a desperado or a madman, I shall kill him without the slightest remorse. Most cordially yours...
...That's a nice picture of civilization, Christian nations using one part of their money to send missionaries to the Chinese and another part of their money to stimulate the deadly opium traffic, that the heathen may be able to purchase weapons to kill each other...
Across the river, in front of the Palais de Justice, a dense crowd waited in the cold for the scraps of news flung to them ever and anon by devious persons. Inside, Maitre Donal Guigue, Public Prosecutor, demanded the death sentence. Nobody had the right to kill, he said. But his heart was not behind his words; he was reciting a mere formality. To Maitre Henri Robert, defending lawyer, he confided: "I envy you your job. Would I were standing in your place. This case is one in which the Public Prosecutor's role is not that of a sympathetic...
...young man began to beg her to kill him and so mercifully end his suffering. He suggested that she should shoot him through the mouth. At first she refused and then, one night, "Suddenly I felt I must obey," she said in a soft, low voice that sounded throughout the court with dread distinctness. Her lover had said to her: "When you realize that all hope is gone, then for pity's sake save me unnecessary suffering. Shoot me in the mouth; that's the best place." She took a pistol, held the muzzle close to her lover's lips...