Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Lincoln's fear had given way to funerals; Lincoln's citizens were trying to figure out what made Chuck Starkweather kill eleven people. Psychiatrists attributed it to mild paranoia, Starkweather's friends mentioned the fact that his plans for marriage had been opposed by both families; his father guessed it was mainly a slow boy growing up too fast. Home again and locked in a special cell at the Nebraska penitentiary, Chuck himself showed signs of realizing that in the end the world had beaten him. He had been gay and insolent earlier...
...gentleman turned to his sexy-voiced dress designer, Patricia Neal, who was having her own problems with Robert Alda, a rapacious playboy known as "the Jewish Errol Flynn." Over Pat's stingers, Walter grunted and groaned about the young generation, whose books are all titled Kiss Me Deadly, Kill Me Lovely or Love Me Dreadful, or lamented mating in the movies when the lovers "come together finally for a kiss, the mouths are open, on the big screen it's half a block long, you could see the tongues, like from a cow, this is not love...
Thus with his good intentions the American has paved the road to hell for the Englishman. And soon he seems well on the way to killing the whole country with kindness. But before that can happen, the Englishman contrives, through the agency of some serviceable Communists, to kill the American. The book ended there, with the Englishman feeling very little pain. But the picture goes on, in a foolishly obvious attempt to sugar the pill so that U.S. moviegoers will swallow it, to take it all back about the American. It turns out he was not really responsible...
...confidence who felt it his destiny to create a great transcontinental railroad system that would put to shame the 19th century railroad empires of Harriman, Vanderbilt and Gould. The keystone would be the Central. But it was not until 1954 that he was ready to move in for the kill. Quietly he had bought up stock, then loudly bombarded the Central with newspaper ads attacking its operating policies. Gradually, he softened confidence in the Central's management until he finally captured the road with the help of a dazzling financial trick. Using friends for financial help, as he often...
...life ambition was to get a car. They promised him one but always fell down on their promises. He has a car now and will kill anybody who tries to take it from...