Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian Shepherd dogs. It is claimed that they kill sheep, so the Alsatians must go. The mere possibility that they might grow too fond of the dingo, produce offspring combining the intelligence of the Alsatian with the speed and ferocity of the dingo fills sheep growers with alarm...
...Monk Freydenberg wired the French War Ministry last week: WITHIN THREE DAYS I WILL KILL CAPTURE OR DISPERSE EVERY ONE OF THE BESIEGERS...
...native Albanians, Zog's mansion-passion was understandable. They know that so many fire-eating Albanians have sworn to kill him that prudent Zog seldom appears outside his palaces. Life in even five palaces becomes cramping to an active...
...doctors decided that radium, X-rays or other measures could neither cure her or give her surcease from her terrific pain. The son nursed her, heard her cries, watched the wrinkles of agony deepen in her face. She lacked strength and means for suicide. She begged his pity to kill her. She reasoned with him. Her death was certain. He could but bring it to her sooner, and far more mercifully than the cancer was doing. He pondered...
...France 40,000 people die each year from cancer, he learned.* Almost half of them kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right...