Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tigers broke the serve and scored one point before Cunning-ham's huge kill muzzled them. Cunningham ended the game with two more kills for the 15-5 victory...
...stack of photographs from a folder and asks a visitor, "Are you a strong person?" The photos show a male corpse that has been beaten and maimed. Small twigs poke out of sockets that once contained eyes. The body bears a gash from groin to throat, apparently made to kill the victim by disemboweling him. "This was in the village of Masis," says ; Huseynov, referring to a town in central Armenia. "I can show you his death certificate if you want...
...Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that...
...absurdity was most in evidence during and after the April 1986 U.S. bombing of the military barracks in Tripoli, Libya. That was when Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was the villain of the month. Although Gaddafi and his family were known to be living in the barracks and although the attack killed many soldiers and some civilians -- including, Gaddafi claimed, his 18-month-old adopted daughter -- American officials were at pains to insist that they did not intend to kill Gaddafi himself. President Reagan said, "We weren't . . . dropping these tons of bombs hoping to blow that man up" -- although...
...cynical. It is part of an unspoken agreement that brings a bit of order to the international chaos by ruling out one especially messy technique of war. Explicitly limiting the ban to heads of state would be too openly cynical, but the deal in essence is: You don't kill our leader, we won't kill yours. National leaders, if not their citizens, sleep better that...