Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heads of the F.L.N. [National Liberation Front] contend that they are the real representatives of the peoples concerned, simply because they kill more people than the others. In order to ensure themselves of this monopoly, they have undertaken the destruction of other parties in the purest totalitarian tradition. In the interior of the country the bands fight at gunpoint over control of the sectors that bring in the fattest dividends in pillage and gunrunning. In the first ten months of 1957 alone, about 600 Algerian Moslems have been killed in France and more than 2.000 wounded, victims of other Algerian...
...want to express my gratitude to God Almighty that I have been saved from assassination. I urge calm and intensified national security. Let us stick together in our grief. May God protect us all." This done, Sukarno set out to discover who among his myriad enemies had tried to kill...
...been guilty of some similar slips in an interview with Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., and Khrushchev was hastening to dissociate himself from the Almighty. God is John Foster Dulles' friend, he said. "Relying on God and calling his name, Dulles sends emissaries to Turkey and Jordan to kill people. The colonialists with their armies came in and brought the church and God with them. They brought the cross and the Bible to colonial countries. They left the people the religion and took all the people had." Churches are tolerated in 'the Soviet Union, said Khrushchev, but only...
...longtime jazz buff, Rexroth got together with Saxophonist Bruce Lippincott and worked out a sketchy jazz accompaniment for his new poem, Thou Shalt Not Kill, a lengthy dirge for long-lost friends, mostly poets: "What happened to Robinson who used to stagger down Eighth Street, dizzy with solitary gin? ... Where is Leonard who thought he was a locomotive? . . . What became of Jim Oppenheim? . . . Where is Sol Funaroff? What happened to Potamkin? . . . One sat up all night talking to H. L. Mencken and drowned himself in the morning." Then the Rexroth verse turns to a super Bohemian and aman...
...feet. As the newsman bent to examine it, a wild-eyed stranger jammed a .22 Colt automatic in Reddick's neck and pressed the trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look, buddy," he shouted, "there's enough cops here to kill you before you can move. Why don't you act sensible?" Still clutching his camera, Reddick sweet-talked his way over to the gun slinger, grabbed his shooting hand as a cop leaped on the man from behind...