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Word: killingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with other combat wisdom: "If you bring [an enemy] down, don't run up to him so he can shoot you back. Give him time to die ... When things break down there's going to be an initial surge of people from the cities. They'll kill you for a can of sardines ... You should band together with a few other families, because you're going to need all the firepower you can get. If you have a nine-or ten-year-old kid, teach him how to shoot ... Get yourself a good guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...reason for such fatalism is that American assassins have generally not been political foes whose acts might be anticipated but psychotics or social misfits who kill for bizarre and unpredictable reasons. Says Robert Delaney, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and an expert on terrorists: "The most frustrating thing is that you are dealing with a randomness. There is no knowing when, how or if." Or why or who. Researchers say that assassins in U.S. history have typically been short, white, unmarried men with mental disturbances dating from their childhood. True, but both attempts on Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Somebody's Waiting for You | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...This is outrageous. It's like trying to kill a flea with a machine gun," Dibner said yesterday. He said that one day during the clerical workers' strike he held classes off-campus at the regular time...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: B.U. Takes Steps to Fire or Suspend Six Activist Professors With Tenure | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...treaty unless President Carter and the Russians agreed to major changes. Unfortunately for Baker, the public does not seem to care as much about SALT II as Baker and his Democratic counterpart, Senate majority leader Robert C. Byrd (W. Va.). Baker's amendments, which had the potential to kill SALT II, met defeat by a one-vote margin in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday, and Capitol Hill colleagues have no idea how the skillful politician plans to use the issue for further gain...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Mr. Statesman | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

Founded in 1915 "to kill with ridicule those who profess the virtue of war," the left-leaning Canard (circ. 550,000) has skewered generations of French leaders with needle wit and wicked cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Duck Hunting | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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