Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Range in New Mexico the Army rocketed a Nike-Hercules into the sky to intercept an XQ-5 jet drone target traveling 14 miles up at more than 2,000 m.p.h. The Nike released a spotting charge near the drone that was close enough to be scored as a kill...
What is worse is having the same symptoms as talent, the pain, the ugly swellings, the lot--but never knowing whether the diagnosis is correct. Do you think there may be some kind of euthanasia for that? Could you kill it by burying yourself here--for good? ...Would the warm, generous, honest-to-goodness animal lying at your side every night, with its honest-to-goodness love--would it make you forget...
...years in Asia, certain that his new stepfather was his mother's paramour, suspecting he is also his father's murderer. This is an Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified with the lover's role that to kill his stepfather would be to kill himself. Truth tumbles out in a climactic modern Closet Scene, but consequences take a therapeutic rather than tragic turn...
...chasse d'un tigre," Maigret mutters grimly as the murderer's score mounts. When the tiger has made his fourth kill, Maigret sets a trap. He invents a suspect, credits him with the crimes, counts on the killer (whose vanity has been demonstrated in his challenge to the police) to protest his guilt by attempting a fresh murder-which 500 plainclothesmen stand ready to prevent. The trap springs, but the tiger escapes, and Maigret is forced to track him through some pretty tortuous back alleys of psychology-the sort of area a camera can easily get lost...
...knew death as the animal. A rush of black hide and ripping white horn blurring past an inch from the ankle. A bullfighter is significant because in his important moments he fights and defeats the animal; the animal means death, and in the final important moment the animal must kill...