Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of international handwringing, a U.S. RB-45 reconnaissance jet bomber flew peacefully above the Yellow Sea, between the coasts of Korea and Red China, with twelve F-86 Sabre jets above it as top cover. Suddenly from nowhere flared out eight Communist MIGs-nationality uncertain, but intentions lethal. Four MIGs went for the RB-45, four for the Sabre jets. The Far East Air Forces' communique was laconic: "Pilots of the 4th Wing returned the attack and shot down two of the MIGs. The other six attackers then returned to Communist territory." U.S. losses: none...
...matter of opinion," writes British Author Charles Duff, "whether, if you wish to kill your undesirable, it is better to...flay him until he dies, or hurl him over a precipice; or burn him or drown or suffocate him; or entomb him alive...or asphyxiate him in a lethal chamber, or press him to death or cut off his head; or produce a sort of coma by means of an electric current... For my own part...I have reached the conclusion - that no people can point to a method which is more beautiful and expeditious, or which is aesthetically superior...
...Iowa, Kans., Del., Md., Mont., Idaho, Wash. use the gallows. Utah offers the prisoner a choice of hanging or shooting. Thirty-three states execute by lethal gas, or electrocution. There is no capital punishment in Me., Mich., Wis., Minn., N. Dak., R.I. (but some of these states make exceptions in special cases, e.g., treason or, as in N. Dak., a first degree murder committed by a person already serving a life sentence for an earlier murder...
...Broadway resurrected the 1941 hit, Arsenic and Old Lace, and filled it with a star-studded cast that Broadway today would give its eyeteeth to have. As the addlepated Brooklyn sisters who gently practice mass euthanasia on lonely old men, Helen Hayes and Billie Burke were the epitome of lethal charm. John Alexander recreated his memorable role of their nephew who believes that he is Teddy Roosevelt (and leads a spirited charge up San Juan Hill every time he gallops upstairs), while Orson Bean managed to bring fresh good humor to the part of the only sane member...
...true birder, that is the kind of challenge that compensates for the long, cold hours, the waiting, the superior smile of more lethal sportsmen. There's nothing quite like the glow of inner pride when a devoted birder spots a rarity. One who glowed this season was Ben Coffey Jr. of Memphis, who saw seven pine siskins (common enough in the North, but rare in the mid-South and beyond) on his Mississippi count around a crossroads hamlet named Kara Avis...