Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to the President, an isolationist is against the war in Viet Nam; an isolationist is foolishly alarmed at the billions of dollars being wasted by the Pentagon; an isolationist suggests that perhaps it is better to feed the starving thousands in America than to kill the starving millions elsewhere in the world; an isolationist believes that not everyone in the free world wants the U.S. to play mother hen, a role that we have played miserably since World War II. I guess I'm an isolationist, and proud...
...dark side of progress is man's spectacular skill at devising better and better ways to kill other men. The nuclear bomb, unfortunately, is not the end of it. There is also chemical and biological warfare, known as CBW, a fount of doomsday weapons that the U.S. and Russia have been rapidly developing. Until recently, the docility of Congress toward Pentagon planning forestalled any real review of the hush-hush CBW program with its secret appropriations. Now, prompted by press reports and rumors, emboldened by the general concern over U.S. military policy, congressional investigators are demanding answers from...
...been imaginary. Witnesses, some with criminal records, charged that August took Pollard into a room, that there was a shot, and that August emerged saying: "He didn't even kick." Prosecutor Avery Weiswasser contended that August and the two other cops, David Senak and Robert Faille, "chose to kill first and investigate later...
...there is freedom for every voice to be heard," he said. Distantly heard, as he spoke, w,ere the chants of 100 radical students. Closely watched by police, they were picketing outside the stadium, carrying a Viet Cong flag and shouting, "Hey, hey, U.S.A., how many kids did you kill today?" Ten graduates walked off the field as Agnew spoke; three young spectators were arrested in the stands for "creating a disturbance"-making V gestures with their fingers...
...toys in the lodge attic. Seeking reassurance, the pair try the ritual of childhood games-Parcheesi, Chinese checkers-then break off even this relationship. Chris teaches Ellen to shoot. At last all they share is the gun, as if the final game were to be a game of kill. More and more, the birth they await seems a kind of impending death...