Word: maim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symphony of warnings even has elaborate seasonal variations. Christmas, for instance, is the time to avoid giving little Johnny toys that can maim or pajamas treated with carcinogenic flameproofing. But every season brings fresh cautions against some new menacing gunk found in air, water, food, medicines. This year alerts were raised about stuffs used to treat dandruff, insomnia, alcoholism and high blood pressure...
...following week against UMass, the first act in Harvard's grotesque drama "Maim the Quarterback" opened with strained ligaments in the St. John knee...
...against Indochina ranks as one of this century's most horrible atrocities. More explosive power was rained upon the Vietnamese countryside than was used in all of World War II; anti-personnel weapons were designed solely for their ability to maim; carcinogenic, fetus-deforming chemical defoliants blanketed half of Vietnam's arable land...
...Anti-personnel, or "cluster" bombs, contained 600,000 tiny pellets, which upon detonation shot across an area of one square kilometer. They were not meant to kill, merely to maim...
...place where a British accent is the law and religion is the best excuse around for killing your friends. Pipe bombs, savage little devils that will indiscriminately swallow up Protestant and Catholic legs, are very popular in Ulster now, but they do not have many friends. Bombs like that maim everyone they meet, and the people who throw them do not apologize. They are not supposed to; they are just doing their...