Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Encouraged by the huge profits to be made, 200 full-time and 3,500 part-time poachers kill an estimated 40,000 alligators every year. They work in relative safety, able to lose themselves quickly in the labyrinthine waterways when park rangers come along...
Outrageously Inappropriate. A veteran swiler can complete a kill in less than a minute. The hunter, his face smeared with seal blood to cut down ice glare and prevent chapping, grabs a 60-lb. pup by a hind flipper, whacks it on its soft skull, spins the pup over, punctures the throat and then neatly skins away pelt, flippers and blubber with swift strokes of a razor-sharp knife. The process commences at dawn, continues until dark and turns the once pristine ice into an ugly palette of dirtied snow, crimson blood sprays and grotesquely skinned carcasses. Watching this month...
...health insurance plans aimed at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. In addition, the "poor-only" programs may become over-specialized...
...kind of simplistic rationalization never comes up. The reason for the plan's economically-mixed clientele is far more subtle. All plans aimed entirely at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. Pollack adds that poor-only programs may become over-specialized. If they only treat sick poor people, they may lose touch with the real world of American medicine; their techniques will be fine for the ghetto, but they won't apply to the majority of the country that...
...nine year old boy, and the discovery of a living Neanderthal in the Massachusetts mental hospital "I'm joking of course. I've got it all backwards. The Neanderthal wasn't Neanderthal at all, he was just a brilliant guy. And besides that he didn't live long. He killed himself by swallowing a spoon after convincing one of the doctors that he was, in fact, a Neanderthal. They let him into the dining room because that was the only place big enough to hold all the consultants and interested scientists. There he was able to kill himself. Bright Neanderthal...