Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier closely resembles a bullfight. First, the picadors and banderilleros harry the victim with light but painful barbs, until his chest is heaving and his flanks are blood-flecked. Then the matador steps forth in solitary grandeur, executes his breathtaking passes and finally plunges his sword in for the kill...
...people who live in temperate countries, vampire bats are colorful items for horror stories. In Latin America they are a too real horror. They carry rabies and transmit it to humans and animals, whose blood they drink. Rabies does not necessarily kill the vampires, and anti-bat measures by humans do not kill enough of them. Last week a Brazilian naturalist, Dr. Augusto Ruschi, 41, was working out a new solution of the vampire problem: biological warfare with a disease that kills bats only...
...hunting in the back-country state of Mato Grosso, he found a cave piled three feet deep with dead and dying vampires. This looked promising, so he collected sample bats and hurried them to his laboratory. From them he isolated germs that will spread from bat to bat and kill them in 120 days. "The long incubation period is good," says Dr. Ruschi. "It helps the victim spread the disease before he dies...
...slim, elegant Nathan and hulking, tousled Mencken battered at boneheads and "dingdoodles" (Nathan's pet epithet for self-satisfied know-nothings). When Mencken died two years ago, his meat ax seemed as anachronistic as a halberd. But Critic Nathan-though the day had passed when he could kill a play with a quip-remained an acute and acidulous observer of the theater whose only visible sign of mellowing was his decision last year to enter the Roman Catholic Church...
Dermot's moral dilemma is sharpened by the fact that his commandant has ordered an attack on a police station which may well kill innocents. The writing is no great shakes, but there is nothing slipshod about the moral crux onto which Novelist Roth has carpentered his O'Neill. A Terrible Beauty is a plain tale, honest as a pair of well-cobbled brogans. Unhappily, every now and then Roth remembers that writing about Ireland is supposed to be a bit on the poetic side, and sets up a keen about the scenery or the weather. The only...