Word: kill
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Almost 100 countries signed a treaty banning cluster bombs--large munitions filled with hundreds of smaller bomblets--on Dec. 3. Unexploded bomblets, which litter dozens of current and former war zones, can kill and maim civilians. Russia, China and the U.S. declined to participate...
...part, I destroyed the Washington Monument. People would be upset. School children would lose a quality backdrop for photographs. Jerry Bruckheimer would no longer have the archetypical Washington aerial shot needed before the president decides to send in an elite team, always manned by Nicholas Cage, to kill someone. And let’s not forget the mountainous heap of rubble. The consequences of my actions, I would estimate to cost the taxpayers around $500 million, and I of course would go to jail...
...Monuments in a period of four years—about one per day. Morever, instead of leveling a few 19th century phallic monuments symbolizing our nation’s might, they razed the United States economy—you know that thing that keeps us from fighting over road kill in order to survive...
...team will have to play a complete and balanced game.“We’ve been focused on playing a really strong D-zone and being more creative in the offensive zone,” Brine said. “The power play and the penalty kill are two things we’ve been working on a lot, because they’re so important, especially with the amount of penalties being called this year.”“It’s not a secret recipe by any means,” Stone added...
...social incentives.” The other two panelists, C. Shawn McGuffey, professor of sociology at Boston College, and Craig Norberg-Bohm, coordinator for Men’s Initiative for Jane Doe, Inc., were more in the nurture camp. “We have to learn how to kill, how to take power,” Norberg-Bohm said. These speakers emphasized the importance of child-raising, while acknowledging the difficulty in overcoming a “boys will be boys” mentality. McGuffey discussed an experiment in which a baby dressed in blue was described...