Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told her grandson she would "kill his parents" if word ever got out about the alleged encounters, Parr said...
...about Chapman's politics. Nothing wrong with being a populist and speaking in the language of the people, but in 1988 there's something a bit trite, a bit haven't-I-heard-this-before about singing slogans like, "Why are the missiles called peacekeepers/When they're aimed to kill?" Well, why? Does Chapman think she's the first person to wonder about Reaganspeak aloud? Are we breaking new ground here? Nothing wrong with her message, but it would be refreshing if people stopped praising it as if it were prophetic, because it's not. It's just the product...
...nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. That is what the U.N. should be all about. I maintain that my idealism, which is based on some fairly rough experience, is a great deal more realistic than the totally defeatest notion that human beings are born to suffer and kill each other. If one believes that, one should go dig a deep hole and jump into...
...gangs embrace a cold-blooded philosophy. Boasts a reputed member of New York's Vigilante gang, who was secretly videotaped by police while sipping champagne and explaining his trade: "We sell drugs and we kill." Often the victim is gunned down at close range in public, with little attempt to conceal the killer's identity. Witnesses who testify about such murders often become targets themselves. Indeed, overburdened police forces have had little success in breaking the power of the drug gangs, even when they have adopted systematic buy-and-bust tactics or resorted to the dragnet-style crackdowns pioneered...
...sack of maize goes to civilians. Northern traders collude with the army to hoard food, then sell it at skyrocketing prices. Last month Prime Minister Sadiq ordered a UNICEF representative to cease shipments of food and medicine to the south. "You are feeding the people who kill my soldiers," he said coldly...