Word: maim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founded and runs a private New York City shelter for runaways. He told of the 14-year-old boy who had been held prisoner for six weeks in a Times Square hotel by a pimp, who chased the fleeing boy right into Ritter's center, trying to maim the youngster with a broken bottle...
...would think that after Dachau, Auschwitz, Manson and the Gulag, the desire of man to kill, maim and torture [Aug. 16] would have been satisfied. Obviously not. The truth has displayed the most horrifying fact of our civilization. Man is still a prisoner of the warped instincts of his mind. No triumph of medicine, culture or knowledge can wipe out that reality...
Sadly enough, there seems to be no shortage of torturers; dictatorial regimes always manage to find enough people who ?convinced of the righteousness of their cause?will maim or murder under orders from an absolute authority. The torture subculture provides these people with a kind of identity. It is also a dramatic and telling proof of what Historian and Social Critic Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." The most inhumane cruelty of man to man can become routine if it is surrounded and buffered by an apparatus of normality...
...your pardon of Nixon, who was, in my opinion, the worst enemy the American people have ever had, and your refusal to restore full citizenship to our real Heroes: those who refused to murder, maim and wound countless millions of Asian men, women and children, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of our own Boys, who suffered a similar fate, seem to be typical of your first year as President. This I deeply deplore. The above Asian people of whom I write, Sir, have never harmed, or threatened to harm in any way our people. They could not have...
...ordered police after the killing of Martin Luther King to "shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand...and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting...