Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market purchases of Turkish lire. When McCuistion denied the charge, five Turks began to work him over. For 18 hours he went without water, food or sleep while his captors questioned and "beat me unmercifully. They rabbit-punched me from behind and kicked me. I was afraid they would kill...
...polished ballplayer. His powerful throwing arm-he has one measured throw of 436 ft.-can be wildly inaccurate. At the plate Rocky will murder a baseball between his belt and knees, but still has trouble solving fast balls tight and high and sliders that break away, still tries to kill the ball instead of just meeting it for base hits. "You might as well talk to a wall as to Rocky," complains Lane. "He'll 'yes' you like crazy, and go right on trying for home runs." Cracks a Yankee coach: "They don't call...
Cause of the disaster, as in similar instances rarely but regularly reported in the U.S., was botulin-a deadly nerve poison secreted by a microbe (Clostridium botulinum), probably from soil. The germs produce botulin only under airless conditions, are hard to kill even by boiling. And since the beets were served cold, Mrs. Gruwell had not boiled them-which might have destroyed the poison...
Though it is the most concentrated poison known (one ounce could, theoretically, kill 100 million people), the botulin did not show its effects until the next day. Then the Gruwells and the four beet-eating Nelsons started to get headaches, feel dizzy, see double. Soon they could not swallow or speak clearly. They were taken to Idaho Falls' Latter-day Saints' Hospital, where their illness was quickly diagnosed. But then the doctors' difficulties began...
...certificate of solvency (debtors are not permitted to enter the priesthood unless creditors approve). He was duly warned that beauty is illusory and appearance unimportant; he also learned that his vows would not be strict prohibitions, but he was asked to promise that he "would try" not to kill, steal, touch the opposite sex, lie, get drunk, eat after noontime, dance or sing, use cosmetics, sleep in a comfortable bed, handle money. He was now ready to be ordained...