Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favorite commandments are the easy ones. I don't covet anyone's spouse; I don't want to kill anybody. A day of rest? No problem. But I'm in a constant struggle with the commandment Republicans have chosen as the one needing the full force of government sanction: Thou shalt not lie. I know honesty is the best policy, but I've been known to try the second-best policy when I have to justify the fact that the Christmas tree isn't up or that I haven't watched every minute of the historic debate TIME magazine pays...
...friend in whom he confided on the eve of his private confession. He had to tell Hillary not only what exactly had been going on in their own house but also admit the fact that he had handed their mortal enemy the weapons that Starr could use to kill them. The next day, the friend could sense how badly it had gone: Hillary seemed a different person--not speaking, not touching, not smiling, barely breathing. She disappeared for the weekend, save for church and a prescheduled birthday party for her husband on the South Lawn, and didn't emerge until...
...complicit she was in all her physical and ideological makeovers along the way, the crisis in August went directly to the soul of her identity as a devout, practicing Christian. In the days following his confession, Bill Clinton left her with an excruciating choice. She might want to kill him for what he had done to her and their daughter, refuse to let him get away with it--but she could not do that and still call herself a Christian...
...stubborn, egocentric wisdom, Kevorkian has become judge, jury and executioner. After I had open-heart surgery 10 years ago, I could hardly breathe and struggled desperately. A medical technician repeatedly came by to see me, and at one point, in fierce pain, I scribbled in pencil, "Kill me!" At long last I recovered my health. Before that incident my instinct for self-preservation had never wavered, nor has it since. All aspects of a patient should be evaluated and decided upon not by a single medical expert but by several, and by close family members. KEITH SABOCOR Seal Beach, Calif...
...immune system comes from the marrow, a transplant of that reddish pulp is, in effect, an immune-system transplant. There's the usual possibility that the body may reject the graft as "foreign." Then there's the almost surreal danger that the transplanted immune system will attack and kill its host...