Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility of lives being lengthened by surgery should be assessed, but often analysis of the future quality of life is necessary in non-lethal cases, he said...
Paxton brandished a rapier-sharp putter throughout the round. He avoided the major hazards posed by the six tantalizingly close but potentially lethal parthrees on the West Point course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Paxton nailed transcontinental putts for birdies on the pair of closing par fives, the 17th and 18th, to finish three over...
losing: never ask about this condition. Could be lethal...
...lines. The diminutive tribesmen (average height under 5 ft.) were praised by one government newspaper as "formidably efficient units who can move silently and well against the enemy." Although they were issued rifles, most pygmies prefer carrying home-made bows that shoot arrows whose tips are coated with a lethal drug (derived from local plants), which kills the monkeys that they hunt for food. Skeptical foreign correspondents could not resist joking that the rebels had suffered "a bay of pygmies," and that the tiny warriors had skewered the enemy from their hiding posts in clumps of crabgrass...
...sons -are neither witty nor especially bright. Ostensibly the book shows what happens to these three between the years 1940 and 1947, during the ravages of World War II and the uncertainties of its aftermath. In building her story, though, Morante also constructs a profound portrait of this lethal age and of the uneven struggle between the machinery of annihilation and the simple will to live...