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Word: killingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncle Sam Wants Who?" [April 2]: the Declaration of Independence states that an inalienable right is that of the "pursuit of happiness." There are many of us who do not consider being forced to kill others pursuing happiness. The draft is inherently immoral, and any attempts to reinstate it should be resisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1979 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...vast golden junkyards that were his books, stands out all too starkly in Great Days. Barthelme has chosen to contract his appeal to a limited audience, and move toward obscurantism. The self-consciousness engendered by the huge welter of 20th-century literary criticism inhibits Barthelme, forces him to kill his prose with refinement. Where are the barbarians...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Not-So-Great Days | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...Sarah's true father. Having impregnated the wanton Lady Jean, milord bribed an impecunious army officer to marry the gal. Lady Jean's memoir also records in damning detail Bellmaster's murders of two accomplices. Intelligence, fearful of security leakage, gives Kerslake a license to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malice in Wonderland | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...dramatically drew to even par with an eagle on the next hole a la Gene Sarazen in the 1935 Masters. After crunching his drive on the downwind par five, he ripped a five iron onto the green and proceeded to kill a rattler when he snaked home a 40-ft. putt...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Sweep in Opener at Tough New Seabury | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...most of the credit belongs to Moliere. If the weakness of the Loeb version of School for Wives stems in part from the extreme difficulty of the important lead role, it is also the play itself which saves the evening. This shaky production would kill lesser comedies; it only wounds this...

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Muddling Moliere | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

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