Word: maim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to make people sit back and think what boxing is really saying," Costin said last night. "Boxing's intent is to deliberately maim. It upsets me that we can justify brutality through the veneer of referees and rules...
Those protesting the granting of amnesty to our Boys who refused to murder, maim and wound in an illegal, immoral and genocidal war, obviously do not even know the meaning of the word amnesty. These Boys have committed no crime, therefore they do not need a pardon. They are among our very best young people, and our nation badly needs their intelligent and patriotic service...
...government has used our tax money to kill, starve and maim millions of Asia people to drive one-third from their homes, to make the countryside unliveable and to waste the lives of 50,000 Americans in the process," the group's statement read...
Weapons American forces are using in Indochina are "clearly designed not to kill, but to maim," Signer said. He added that there is "mounting evidence" that defoliants, used heavily in the war, came birth defects...
...stared at his small vegetable garden one day last fall, a Collinsville, Okla., welder and farmer named Charles Baker came to the conclusion that his environment was threatened. The reason was 3 ft. underground: a gas pipeline that Baker was convinced would explode like a "time bomb" and maim his family. In four months Baker ran up $1,000 in telephone bills enlisting support from public officials around the U.S. Armed with photographs and witnesses, he then went to the Oklahoma corporation commission, a state agency that regulates pipelines. His charge: the pipeline, part of a $9 million, 144-mile...