Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Existence is pain. The root of pain is desire. By following the Way of Buddha, a man can eliminate desire and win ultimate knowledge. Depending on his works, a man may be reincarnated as a prince or a panda. Therefore, all life is sacred. A true Buddhist should not kill a fly or step on an insect because-literally-it may be somebody's grandmother...
...police nothing, and everyone around-the shoeshine boy, the boy's customer, even the woman who sold the oranges-had sudden lapses of memory. But before he died in the hospital, Big Pasquale told Little Doll what had happened: Tony Esposito had sent The Ship around to kill...
...Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly all its forward speed by the time it reaches the front wall, skitters off it and drops dead...
...curve and whistle a handball like a major-league pitcher. Before entering the Army, he worked for Kendler in Chicago. In the U.S.H.A. finals against Bob Brady, 36, a fireballing San Francisco cop, Private Sloan was at the peak of his methodical, calm game ("I'm a controlled kill player"), won going away (21-20, 21-9) to become indisputably the nation's handiest handballer...
Ford remembers Guderian as a loyal man, one who had no part in the famous July 20 plot to kill Der Fuehrer, and in talking to him, he was able to obtain much of the information needed to recreate that plot. Asking questions as historians, Ford and his colleagues learned for instance that the Germans had been told Coventry was bombed in retaliation for Dresden. The impression gathered from talks with the highly competent generals, Ford recalls, was that "if Hitler had let the generals run the war, such disaster would not have occurred...