Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Cetkovic poisoned the teabag in February, he allegedly called the supermarket to warn them of the cyanide, The Associated Pressreported. The 32-year-old Cetkovic said in his trial that he wanted officials to test the cyanide to determine whether the amount he used was enough to kill...
...growing physical pangs of alcoholism -- the retching, nervous spasms, sweaty and sleepless nights, dehydration -- matched the moments of hammering panic I felt every morning for months on end, as I tried to remember exactly what I had done the night before. At one point, terrified that I might kill someone with my car, I gave up driving, but never alcohol. Along with the fear came sudden rages -- at my wife, at my friends, at anyone who tried to stop me from drinking. My homelife became a nightmare. Creeping paranoia...
...inmates who seized control of the federal detention center near Oakdale, La., threatened on yesterday to kill their 28 hostages if authorities stormed the facility...
...then there is AIDS. Goldsmith repeatedly brings it up in conversations. He believes it threatens to kill most of the human race -- "it could be up to 98% of mankind." This champion of individual enterprise urges that the U.S. join with the despised Soviets and "pool their resources in a massive research effort to find a way to prevent the spread of AIDS." "The thing about Jimmy," says Olivier Todd, whom Goldsmith fired as editor of L'Express for favoring the Socialists in the 1981 election, "is that he's an English eccentric in the best sense of the term...
Thus Nicaraguans continue to kill one another, one side getting guns from Moscow, the other side from Washington. Meanwhile, the armored knights of the revolution continue to clank noisily in the halls of power, shouting anti-U.S. epithets. Only last month Tomas Borge, the powerful Interior Minister, told a gathering in Managua that the U.S. was the "enemy of humanity" and vowed never ending battle. As he spoke, several Sentinels of the People's Happiness, as the ministry's police are officially called, stared fixedly ahead...