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Word: killingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plots to kill Jubilee Weekend are multifarious. More than once in the short history of this gala affair, a group of disgusted roommates, turned down by all four girls that they knew at Endicott, have sat around late scheming for its demise. Jocks tried to kill it when the Byrds appeared; heads have always stayed away en masse. But no one has really managed to pin down what makes Jubilee so terrible every year. Last year, a series of fortuitous coincidences almost brought the noble tradition down, but alas, they're going to give it one more try this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Jubilee Almost Died; Or, How Four Conspirators Tried to Make You Richer | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...only part of his philosophy which seemed to fall short. "The ideas I find in Marx are still good enough for me," he said. It's very nice to think about a perfect communist society, a classless state where people are truly free of the economic bonds which kill ours...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Marcuse at B.U. | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

...similar to the power of the person who decides to commit suicide. The suicide has the enormous power to take anyone along with him. Murder in the open (and most murders are not secret) is suicide. Assassins are murders too--something we often forger. Sirhan Sirhan merely acted, merely killed Robert Kennedy, probably to kill himself in the most powerful way he could. But the reasons Sirhan killed Kennedy (that he was an Arab and Kennedy liked the Israelis) are reasons we ascribe to Sirhan. We have to have explanations; that is why we cannot admit that Oswald...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: On Action and the Reasons for It | 4/22/1969 | See Source »

...even hate to kill a cockroach...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: You Smell the Grass But Can't Make Flowers Grow | 4/19/1969 | See Source »

...soon as I see one cockroach I call the janitor and have the fumigator come. I even hate to kill a cockroach--they must have a purpose on this earth...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: You Smell the Grass But Can't Make Flowers Grow | 4/19/1969 | See Source »

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