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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the original threat to kill Cicippio was made Monday, his captors demanded the release of a Shiite Moslem cleric Israeli commandos kidnapped July 28. The new terms include release of unspecified "Palestinian and Lebanese" guerrillas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Spare Life of American Hostage | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

...group had threatened to kill Higgins, calling him a "proven spy," if Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid were not freed. The influential Moslem cleric was kidnapped in a raid by Israeli commandos Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Claims to Have Killed Hostage | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

...request full-time protection an average of $225,000 a year. De Becker provides the staffs and publicists of celebrities with 20 pointers to help them screen letters or calls. A direct threat is not necessarily a good indicator of true danger, he says. " 'I'm going to kill you' is as common as a fan letter to many of these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone says, 'I've sold my house, and I'm coming to get you.' " De Becker and his staff of 31 are currently keeping tabs on 5,400 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Fatal Obsession with the Stars | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Delving further into the sparrow toll, which accounted for 16% of the total feline catch, the scientists concluded that from a third to a half of all sparrow deaths were attributable to cats. Extrapolating these figures, they estimated that cats kill at least 20 million birds a year in Britain. "Yet," write the authors indignantly, "we are supposed to be a nation of bird lovers, many of whom keep cats but still castigate bird hunters and trappers on the continent of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Attack of The Killer Cats | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...promoters of Big Bird let themselves be cast as champions of the Beastie Boys -- not just of their right to perform but of their performance itself? Why should it be left to Gore to express moral disapproval of a group calling itself Dead Kennedys (sample lyric: "I kill children, I love to see them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Censure | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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