Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended last week the life of John Spenkelink, 30, a wiry drifter and habitual criminal, after a frenzied week of final appeals, to the Florida Supreme Court, to the Federal Appeals Court and to the U.S. Supreme Court. He had won two brief stays, then lost them both because of pleas by Florida officials who were determined to put him to death...
...There are other values of life involved here, including the value of the lives that were taken...
After selling some of his bank investments to a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur and acting as a consultant in finding investment opportunities for oil-rich Middle East millionaires, Lance has been able to maintain much of the high life-style that his edifice of credit once supported. His lawyers might argue that if Lance did break some banking rules, he did so without either fraud or malice, and that little or no actual damage was done to anyone...
...billion spent annually on arms research and development is more than "is spent on the problems of energy, health, education and food combined." Does the money buy greater security? McNamara asked. "No. At these exaggerated levels, only greater risk, greater danger, and greater delay in getting on with life's real purposes...
...addition, there were outlays for brightening up the estate for the Nixons and making life more comfortable: a flagpole, for example, cost $2,329; golf carts ran to $15,929; and a bill for decorative pillows came...