Word: maim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...models. To demonstrate what can be done, New York State is spending $5 million to build and test a "safety car"; its designers are convinced that they can halve injuries caused by a forward crash at an impact speed of 50 m.p.h.-roughly 75% of the accidents that maim or kill...
...Yorker review by Louise Bogan is perhaps the most dangerous, since it comes from someone who should know better. "Berryman is out to get language itself, to distort and maim it, not in the direction of wit but in the direction of funny grammar and burnt-cork comedy." She accuses him of "pulling human speech toward some totally disjunct and invertebrate set of noises." Such a reaction betrays a tin ear and a wooden sense of humor, for the dream songs may be one of the more successful experiments with wit in the language. The poem, taken as the whole...
...guilty." Not that anyone had expected differently in "bloody Lowndes," as Negroes call the county. Nonetheless, Attorney General Flowers, a courageous, outspoken antisegregationist whose own life was threatened during the trial, denounced the verdict as an outrage. Said he: "Now those who feel they have a license to kill, maim and destroy have been issued that license...
...emphasize the unfortunate strategic consequence. This is that by such use the tacitly accepted barrier against one more type of warfare had been removed. Practically all nations can produce or procure a great variety of chemical and biological warfare agents ranging from those which produce incapacitation through those that maim to those that kill. By opening up one end of this spectrum we have invited escalation in a new dimension of warfare. Yet it is a dimension which by its diversity and ease of spread we cannot hope to match with deterrence. Thus our ability to restrain violence throughout...
...outgoing wench-charmer. Julie is miserly of person and property. She locks up salami in a wall safe, sets rattraps to maim any hand that gropes under the sofa for the hidden vodka, and religiously snaps off lights. Lou breaks into the salami safe and religiously snaps on lights. After this epic depiction of character, Playwright Slade can do nothing but tuck the twosome...