Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After an atomic holocaust, insects may be the only creatures left alive for miles around. Some species can survive a radiation dose 200-300 times greater than that which would kill an elephant or a man. One explanation: cells are most susceptible to radiation damage when they are in the process of dividing. Since many insects, unlike humans, undergo no cell division during much of their lives, they are more highly resistant to radiation...
...lady with a rifle in her lap. As she oils it she quavers, "Ah'm jes' cleanin' up after the boys." Next morning Jesse announces wearily that he has to get up early and go to work-there's a man he has to kill. Ma pipes up. "Promise me you'll wear rubbers, son." But Hope rides out to the duel instead, rigs his guns to fire when he tips his hat, drops his man, saves the policy, captures the villain, gets the girl (Rhonda Fleming). Conclusion: as the grateful townsfolk gather around...
...Murder, Artie decides, is the only thing that will satisfy his compulsion "to do something really dangerous," and Judd loyally approves "the perfect crime" as "the true test of the superior intellect." So they kidnap a 14-year-old schoolboy named Paulie Kessler (fictional name for Bobby Franks), cosh-kill him in the back of a rented car, and dump the body in a culvert. Remorse? Artie seems incapable of human feeling. But thoughtful, sensitive Judd protests too much: "Murder's nothing! It's just a simple experience. What's one life more or less...
...before they can reproduce. Up to 20% of Bristol Bay red salmon runs in 1957 bore the telltale scars of long, fine-meshed Japanese gill nets, which can be strung to form a solid, ten-mile barrier across the ocean. By using these nets, say U.S. fishermen, the Japanese kill many immature, Alaska-born salmon and violate the intent of a 1953 treaty designed to prevent the Japanese from fishing for native Alaska salmon...
...former U.S. naval pilot, walked out of La Cabana fortress overlooking Havana at dawn, nearly two hours after the three-man tribunal had declared him guilty of attempting to kill Castro, the rebel chieftain who is now Cuba's premier...