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Word: killingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours, but Moore has caught his tornado, and it didn't catch him. The 11 ft. of film on which he captured nature's awesome dervish will be scrutinized by NSSL scientists and added to the incomplete yet growing mosaic of knowledge about storms that kill an average of 250 people a year and do a billion dollars worth of damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: Chasing Twisters | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...live with and have any peace with the Arab residents of the West Bank [May 21] if it constantly provokes and harasses the peaceful ones? It seems clear that the Israelis intend to choke off all but the violent Palestinian options so that they can label Palestinians terrorists, kill them and have world approval at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1979 | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...outbreak of nuclear war has long been regarded as a virtually suicidal exchange in which the U.S. and the Soviet Union fire thousands of atomic warheads at each other, obliterate both societies and kill scores of millions. But what if one side attacked with conventional weapons and the other retaliated with just three or four nuclear missiles? How would the first nation react to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Least Awful Option? | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Bonanno's scorn for his colleagues on the commission got him in trouble. He invaded their territories and ignored their calls for conciliatory meetings. And finally, the other dons believed, he schemed to kill three of his rivals, Stefano Magaddino, Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese. In his memoirs, however, Bonanno is all innocence. He was merely trying to talk to them. "Carl [Gambino] and Tom [Lucchese] ... [were] told that I was going to kill three -a dirty and desperate conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Not So Quietly Flows the Don | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Louisiana argues that the provision would require an even higher level of price supports for growers. With that in mind, Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church is pushing for a rise to 17? per Ib. Frets one industry lobbyist in Washington: "All this agitation for more subsidy is going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg." If so, it is about time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Going Sour on Sugar Payoffs | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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