Word: maim
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...guilty." Not that anyone had expected differently in "bloody Lowndes," as Negroes call the county. Nonetheless, Attorney General Flowers, a courageous, outspoken antisegregationist whose own life was threatened during the trial, denounced the verdict as an outrage. Said he: "Now those who feel they have a license to kill, maim and destroy have been issued that license...
...emphasize the unfortunate strategic consequence. This is that by such use the tacitly accepted barrier against one more type of warfare had been removed. Practically all nations can produce or procure a great variety of chemical and biological warfare agents ranging from those which produce incapacitation through those that maim to those that kill. By opening up one end of this spectrum we have invited escalation in a new dimension of warfare. Yet it is a dimension which by its diversity and ease of spread we cannot hope to match with deterrence. Thus our ability to restrain violence throughout...
...outgoing wench-charmer. Julie is miserly of person and property. She locks up salami in a wall safe, sets rattraps to maim any hand that gropes under the sofa for the hidden vodka, and religiously snaps off lights. Lou breaks into the salami safe and religiously snaps on lights. After this epic depiction of character, Playwright Slade can do nothing but tuck the twosome...
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...