Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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taunt us in the night, Men kill other men at war. Hungry children lying on the floor...
...said to Abraham, "Kill...
...Christ rising on the third day to heaven. And by putting the story in a contemporary setting he's telling the people with a Bible in the desk, who think "it can't happen here," that it could and they would probably be the ones to do it (kill Jesus, or his equivalent) as soon as they got the chance...
...prime goals in attacking pollution ought to be a vast shrinkage of the human impact on other creatures. The war on insects, for example, might actually go a lot better without chemical pesticides that kill the pests' natural enemies, such as birds. One of the best strategies is to nurture the enemies so they can attack the pests; more insect-resistant crops can also be developed. Florida eliminated the screwworm fly not by spraying but by sterilizing hordes of the male flies, then liberating them to produce infertile eggs. A still newer method is the use of sex attractants...
...listening to-wild though his theory may be. The FBI, he says, is looking for the wrong man. James Earl Ray, alias Eric Starvo Gait, was indeed in on the assassination plot-which Capote believes was carried out by "leftists, not rightists," for political gain. Ray did not, however, kill Martin Luther King. "I have studied his record very carefully, and in my experience with interviewing what I call homicidal minds [Capote has talked at length with 100 murderers in the past nine years], he's simply a man not capable of this particular kind of very calculated...