Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around her, and began to ask questions like "Did you hurt yourself?" and "Are you all right?" Then, in a flash, the undaunted Susie was back on her feet and screamed, "It's not me. It's Jimmy. He's gone off in the car. He's going to kill himself...
...very fast music, and, feeling more than a little like Steve McQueen, had started south on Route One to look for Jimmy. Before he had gone very far, however, Paul saw Jimmy driving back toward Esalen. They waved, and stopped, and Jimmy confessed that he had decided neither to kill himself-- there had been only one suicide in Esalen's seven-year history, and that was by a staff member--nor to go to a movie, so the two of them talked a little and then drove back to Esalen to rejoin the rest...
Joyfully Biased. Hinckle readily concedes that Ramparts stories are "totally and absolutely and joyfully biased. We went in to hang the CIA. We went in to hang the Saigon government, to kill the war in Vietnam. That's what political journalism is all about." But he complains, as does Scheer, that the magazine has paid dearly for its opinionated independence. Stories on Black Power, Barry Goldwater and the CIA all led to cancellations of advertising. So did an editorial that took an almost neutral, rather than pro-Israel stance on the Arab-Israeli war. "You have madness in publishing...
...this fantastical and compelling first novel. The unlikely tale that does evolve draws the unwitting narrator into a plot to palm off one of his works as a Leonardo da Vinci. Somewhat later he proceeds to poison no fewer than seven people in a visionary effort to meet and kill...
...only did the Thugs kill without remorse but "with pleasure," as they confessed, sanctified by omens before and prayers afterward. Thug son succeeded Thug father in the family business as a matter of course. But even after as many as eleven generations had accumulated fortunes, Thugs and scions of Thugs went on doing their thing. Shrewd appraisers of rich victims, they carefully scouted out their targets. But they had no objection to the impromptu murder of a party of four-for as little as 20 gold pieces and a handful of rupees. Whatever drove the Thugs-probably a mixture...