Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wildly, furiously, Parker pointed at his fellow prisoners: "He did it!" The raiders began dragging him toward the stairs. One of them turned to the other five frightened prisoners and warned: "Keep your damn mouths shut!" Parker wailed: "Don't take me out! Don't let them kill...
...young French soldiers fighting in Algeria, "to kill becomes a normal game," and conventional rules of warfare are soon forgotten. So testified 35 troubled French army officers last week. They were soldiers of an unusual sort-Roman Catholic priests who as army reservists called to active duty are serving in Algeria not as chaplains but as line officers...
Apart from its mission of feeding facts to farmers, the Journal is a tireless, effective crusader on issues great and small. In 1953, within six months after the magazine had demanded, "Let's Make 'Em Cook Raw Garbage" (to kill the vesicular exanthema virus that can infect hogs), 28 states enacted appropriate laws. Currently, Editor Streeter is busily engaged in a crusade in which the stakes are no less than the future of the American farmer, afflicted as he is by a self-defeating Government program that this fiscal year is costing the U.S. taxpayer a scandalous...
Rumors of plots to kill the revolutionary leader account for the extensive police precautions. One such rumor--that a seven-man group was planning to assassinate Castro--was investigated yesterday. Police found five of the men working peacefully in Philadelphia, and another located in Las Vegas, Nevada. All of the men denied any plot...
Five hours before the concert, a platoon of coolies moved into the open-air concert area and enveloped it in a cloud of insecticide to kill off the mosquitoes. An hour later, two coolies armed with spools of adhesive tape started affixing location tags to the rows of folding seats. At C-hour-minus-30 minutes, the national flags of Viet Nam and the U.S. were in place. As the darkness gathered, the men of the orchestra took their places, and promptly at 8 p.m. the conductor raised his baton. Moments later one more corner of Asia was introduced...