Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rupee ($1.05) fine on boys and girls caught talking to each other; by week's end he had collected 100 rupees. Most male students, however, saw no hope. "They put the girls in the front row," moaned one. "Every time I look up, I see one dressed to kill. How can I listen to the lecture?" The real trouble, said another male flunkee, is that "college is the only time we have in our lives for romancing." The only people who remained unperturbed by the situation were the girls themselves. True to their reputation as the deadlier sex, they...
...highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef, complete with faked, blue government-inspection stamps...
...from exposing her secret life with J. Edgar-whom she has never met-Dolly Schiff revealed nothing more sensational than her own insinuation that the No. 1 G-man had stopped at practically nothing in an effort to kill a series of stories on the FBI about to begin in the Post. Banking mostly on intuition, Publisher Schiff charged that she was placed under surveillance ("Apparently the FBI was indeed watching me") ; she insinuated -without any shred of evidence-that her hotel rooms were bugged. On a trip to Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post...
Dolly charged that Hoover had discussed the impending series with one of her advertisers in an attempt to bring pressure on the Post to kill the story. Hoover told the advertiser, said Dolly, that the Post was angry because the FBI had once forced the dismissal of Nancy Wechsler, wife of Post Editor James Wechsler, from a Washington job. Indignantly, and at exhaustive length that spared neither the reader nor Nancy, Publisher Schiff reported that Mrs. Wechsler had belonged to the Young Communist League for a short time years ago but had never been fired from a Government...
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M., Oct. 14--A Nike-Zeus missile--designed to kill ICBMs--made its maiden test flight today across the southern New Mexico desert...