Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Part of that love of history comes from Ulrich's childhood in rural Sugar City, Idaho, a 900-person community where Ulrich learned how to kill chickens and milk cows. Ulrich says she heard a lot of pioneer stories, as her grandparents were homesteaders in the late 19th century...
Faced with this evidence, Volpe pleaded guilty to six federal charges, in the hope of avoiding the maximum sentence of life in prison. (Four other cops accused in the attack remain on trial.) "If you tell anybody about this, I'll find you and kill you," Volpe admitted warning Louima that night. But, tellingly, while Volpe apologized "for hurting my family," he offered no apology to his victim. Nor was there any apology from Volpe's lawyer, Marvyn Kornberg, who had claimed--without evidence--that the ruptured bladder and rectal lacerations that Louima, a married father of two, had suffered...
...their sky-high voices. (Deller is said to have been confronted backstage once by a German fan who asked, "You are eunuch, yes?" to which the singer allegedly replied, "I think perhaps you mean unique, madam.") And in the '50s and '60s, when rumors of homosexuality could still kill a career, many went out of their way to stress their manliness. But times have changed, and Daniels makes no secret of being gay. "It's no big deal," he says, pleasantly but firmly. "I'm very comfortable with...
Here in Germany, the majority of people seem to agree that firearms don't solve problems; they kill people. The remark of the person who said the massacre could have been avoided had the teachers at Columbine been armed was amazing. It was so cynical, so out of touch with reality, and showed a Dr. Strangelove kind of arms idolatry. I am a teacher myself. Shall I teach young people respect, tolerance and fairness while I outgun them? STEFAN BARTELS Dillingen, Germany...
Secondly, we voluntarily planned Freddie's death. My aunt did not plan to kill hundreds of hogs. Her boss told her to. She merely complied and does not feel guilty, because, in the words of psychologist Stanley Milgram, "the person entering an authority system no longer views himself as acting out of his own purposes but rather comes to see himself as an agent for executing the wishes of another person...