Word: maim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wallace, a Negre, participated in a July 28 civil rights demonstration in Prince Edward County that led to his arrest on charges that he did "unlawfully, feloniously and maliciously kick, hit, wound, beat, hi-treat, and cause badily injury to (a police officer) with intent to maim, disable, disfigure, and kill (the officer)." Wallace's attorney, George N. Allen of Richmond, Va, said last night that he will enter a piea of not guilty...
Wallace was convicted Sept. 27 of four misdemeanor charges. He faces a fifth charge of "wounding with felonious and malicious intent to maim, disfigure and kill," which could bring a maximum sentence of ten years in prison...
...generation ago, labeling was usu ally unimportant because only a few medicines were potent enough to do much harm. But many of today's high-powered drugs, taken by the wrong patient or at the wrong time, can maim or kill as readily as they can cure. The most notorious example is thalidomide, which was freely sold as a harmless tranquilizer and sleeping pill...
...they stay around the Square and don't wander into the shabby area a few blocks below Dunster House. Since we are judging the individual on his merits we might as well forget about the blatantly unequal opportunities in education, employment and housing and culture which tend to maim the individual Negro...
...recently in the U.S.-that is, with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents and Peter De Vries's Comfort Me with Apples. But Condon is something more. He is a comedian who throws his custard pies in black anger, with intent to maim. His novels resemble (more accurately, are resembled by) Heller's Catch-22; the difference being that Condon's work is wildly plotted and Heller's is wildly plotless. The reaction of Condon's readers is usually either disgust and incredulity or fanatical admiration and incredulity. True...