Word: maim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called the Land Freedom Army, a mysterious group of Kikuyu tribesmen with terrorist aims, who have gathered in the forests to revive the hideous Mau Mau oathing ceremonies over carcasses of strangled cats. Like the Mau Mau, they have begun slipping onto white farmers' property by night to maim cattle and terrorize the inhabitants. Once again, Rift Valley farmers strap on pistols before going out to the fields...
...destroying nerve cells. This kind of damage can kill. The death in Manhattan last week of Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, after nine days in a coma, from brain injuries suffered in his world championship bout with Emile Griffith, underscored the charge that "in boxing, the aim is to maim...
Measuring Yachts. The plot, florid and foolish by turns, concerns Madame Rosepettle and her young son (Andrew Ray), moneyed travelers who ply the international circuit from hotel to hotel, taking with them the stuffed remains of Mr. Rosepettle. A sort of Auntie Maim, Madame Rosepettle also has a cat-eating piranha fish, a couple of man-eating plants and a psychopathic hobby: she stalks lovers on the beaches at night and kicks sand into their faces. She keeps her son locked away from the world to guarantee his presence when she finally decides the direction in which his future greatness...
...when the House education bill (calling for $1.3 billion over four years) came up for debate at midweek, the House put on a messy display of cross-purposed confusion. Amendments and proposals that would kill or maim the bill popped up and down like ducks at a sideshow shooting gallery. The Congressman whose proposal did the most harm was New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., political boss of Harlem. He insisted on attaching the old familiar "Powell Amendment," a rider that would withhold federal funds from segregated schools. Powell occasionally manages to tack on his nuisance amendment, sometimes killing...