Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wright this week changed the course when he promised to hold a vote to kill the raise before the deadline if a majority of House members wanted...
...actor who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Soupy Sales and appeared for a decade as Santa in the Detroit Thanksgiving parade. "We started to worry about his health after there was a bomb threat on his sleigh," David remembers. "Only in Detroit would they want to kill Santa Claus...
...irate Shamir defended these and all of the other measures the I.D.F. has employed against the uprising by blaming the Palestinians. "They force us to take guns and do things you don't like to do," he told the reservists. "We hate those P.L.O. people because they make us kill Arab children. But you must do that to survive...
...individual anecdotes." In the subversive sitcom What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1985), "I wanted to talk about my family, and about the horrendous family life of the barrios." Mom (Maura) sniffs glue, pops pills and burns the chicken. Dad sings German songs -- reason enough for her to kill the dull brute with a ham bone. By this time the viewer may feel like put-upon Mom or bashed-in Dad, so assiduously has Almodovar cataloged his atrocities. But the filmmaker had more cunning indiscretions in store...
Mendes had accused two wealthy landowner brothers, Darli and Alvarino Alves da Silva, of plotting to kill him. Last week Darli's son, Darci Alves da Silva Perera, 21, confessed to assassinating Mendes. Police are convinced that Darci is trying to cover up for his father and uncle and have arrested seven other relatives and family friends in connection with the crime...