Word: maim
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Whenever Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky has a bad week, bad words fly. Cried he last week: "General Ridgway was told to fight-to maim, and he's maiming, to kill, and he's killing, to burn, and he's burning." Cause of Vishinsky's bad temper was a succession of reverses in the U.N. General Assembly's Political Committee...
General Manager Bing had been listening to a rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera's third opera in English this season. The first two, Fledermaus and Cosí Fan Tutte, were brilliant hits, in which almost every word came through clearly. But after listening to his singers maim a new translation of Puccini's one-act comic opera, Gianni Schicchi, Bing was about ready to concede that it might as well be sung in Bantu. In this, as it turned out at the performance the next night, Bing had merely anticipated public opinion...
...group of people in the U.S.-perhaps half a million-who are legally sane (i.e., they know the difference between right & wrong) but socially irresponsible. Many of them are brilliant and charming. Their condition is likened to a fine automobile with no brakes. At any time they may steal, maim or kill, and when they do they will feel little or no remorse...
...Reader Johnson was lucky. A "Destructor" contains enough dynamite to blind or maim anyone dismantling it, and enough thermite to create a fire which most people would have trouble putting...
There are other more understandable but equally inexplicable anomalies: how some marines (especially officers) spend so much time investigating the licentious pleasures of the cities; how other marines sometimes kill and maim Chinese by reckless driving, or in deliberate mayhem and murder committed while drunk...