Word: kill
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Celebrated for their wantonness, the favored Hurricanes breezed into Phoenix wearing paramilitary camouflage and murderous expressions. "Football players aren't studying to be priests," reasoned Defensive Tackle Jerome Brown. "They're learning to kill." How they were killed instead, 14-10, was an amazement difficult to fathom completely, though it had something to do with faulty stereotypes on both sides and the fact that Penn State caught just as many passes from Miami's quarterback (five) as from...
...been smuggled by Lucy out of Nicaragua, footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras. The figure he has in mind is $5 million; he carries a letter of recommendation from President Ronald Reagan...
...light of what we all profess to think about guys who knock of trains and kill officers of the law, it's pretty surprising that many of us know the song about the James Brothers--the one with the verse about the "dirty little coward" who killed Mr. James. And is there anyone who hasn't rooted for Paul Newman and Robert Redford against the marshals who would keep Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from living it up on stolen loot...
...wrong about that as well. The terror and self-doubt we associate with being human you may have learned to cure with a shot or a pill. We will give you what we know. One secret of our age is that we are learning that democracy can kill democracy. For one thing, excessive freedoms have made it almost impossible for an ethical conscience to assert itself. People have been free to ignore social obligations, to abuse one another, to kill themselves...
Craig remembers an incident in `Justice'--Moral Reasoning 22--when the section was discussing poverty. "Someone said if there was a poor man with 10 kids, and he needed money, then of course he would kill someone to get it. I didn't get mad, but I was saddened that she was so deluded...