Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BETTER TO KILL YOU WITH, a New England mystery by Fred Carmichael, will be testing at the Playhouse, Dorset...
Violence can be a simple, rational reaching for a goal, in its legal form of war or its illegal form of crime. It can often be irrational, as in a seemingly senseless killing or quarrel. But the distinction between irrational and rational violence is not easily drawn. Even the insane murderer kills to satisfy a need entirely real to him. Violence is often caused by "displaced aggression," when anger is forced to aim at a substitute target. Every psychologist knows that a man might beat his child because he cannot beat his boss. And a man may even murder because...
Others try to scratch themselves by rubbing against autos, with unfortunate results for the bodywork. Some smash down boundary fences, uproot trees and chase African herdsmen; occasionally, they kill someone. Whether they turn vicious or merely playful, all of them sway and totter about a great deal, as if they were drunk. In fact, they are. Once a year at this time, Kruger Park's elephants go on one of the world's biggest binges...
...first Williams' synthetic product was too powerful. "We have what could kill all the insects in the world, if we ever unleashed...
...discovery is of special importance because most insects have by this time developed a resistance to the standard 'n-secticides, which were developed around World War II. Today DDT wouldn't kill a fly, much less a louse...