Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Robert McNamara, then Secretary of State, came to a visit late in 1966, he was blockaded by a mass of 2800 protesters and aggressively questioned by Stephen, among others. "How many South Vietnamese citizens did you kill this week, and why don't you release the figures?" Steven shouted. McNamara quietly replied that he did not know the number, and was greeted by more heckling...
...Danish-born socialite, acquitted last year of twice trying to kill his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, also said the offer included his renouncing of any claims on his estimated $14 million share of her $75 million gas and utilities fortune, her Newport mansion and their luxurious New York apartment...
...family life. My one day off I sleep to noon with exhaustion. In France % there are the same hours but not the same pressures. In America you have to be on edge every day. When you are good, they will love you. But make one mistake and they will kill you." Agrees Surmain: "Americans squeeze you like a lemon, and when there is no more juice left, they just drop you." He advises also that it is important to have a good command of English, to appear well on TV talk shows...
...sufferers from jobs because other employees have demanded it. When Paul Cronan, a twelve-year veteran phone installer for New England Telephone, revealed his illness in May 1985, co-workers refused to use the truck he had driven, demanded that the bathroom he used be disinfected and threatened to kill Cronan if he returned to work. The company put Cronan on disability leave. Todd Shuttleworth, a former budget analyst for Broward County, Fla., came down with AIDS in 1984. The county dismissed him and canceled his medical benefits immediately after Shuttleworth revealed his illness. Says Paul Swinney, who lost...
...habits die hard," said John McEnroe last month. Not that he hasn't tried to kill them off. The once supreme tennis star and undefeated champ of testiness on and off the court, McEnroe dropped out of the game six months ago, vowing to change his attitude -- and his game -- for the better. But when the reformed McEnroe made his long-awaited return to the pro circuit last week at the Volvo International tournament in Stratton Mountain, Vt., some of his old habits surfaced again...