Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Bradford Huie, a journalist who has bought exclusive rights to Ray's story and has also interviewed several potential witnesses. Reporting that Ray was hired in Canada to do some smuggling for a man named Raoul, Huie suggests that both men were part of a plot to kill Dr. King...
...recent weeks Washington's attitude has altered. Alarmed by the possibility of a vast famine that could kill thousands of Biafra's 7,000,000 people in the next three months, the Administration has decided on a more active role, one that may funnel $20 million more in relief into Biafra by the end of the fiscal year...
...language transpositions from the Greek lack eloquence, spareness or precision, and the contemporary colloquialisms iar the ear. Lines like "You mean you intend to kill your mother?" produce wildly inappropriate laughter from an audience saturated with Freud. The prevailing style of the evening is that of neo-Shakespearean swashbuckling, and the barely adequate cast seems to relish all opportunities for bombast and comic clowning. The chorus resembles the witches from Macbeth multiplied. The murders might as well have been performed by Richard III. Elizabethan Greeks are a novelty all right, but they reduce the play to historical pageantry, horseplay...
...badge." He concluded that "it is as though we delivered our children to someone who took them away for four or five hours every day in their formative years to watch police interrogations, gangsters beating enemies, spies performing fatal brain surgery, and demonstrations in how to kill and maim...
...army or jail, and there wouldn't be very many guys in ROTC if the draft weren't on their backs. If I were now in the army, I would still find Hoffmann's hands-off attitude obscene, because I and my comrades would be forced to kill and be killed while Mr. Hoffmann washed his hands of the affair. Only a member of the elite can afford to take that attitude. Many of us don't care to join that sort of elite while our (largely working class) brothers are shipped to Vietnam...