Word: maimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public condemnation. We tried economic sanctions. And, yes, we tried a show of military might (the Sixth Fleet's skirmish in the Gulf of Sidra with Libyan patrol boats and missile batteries last month). But Gaddafi intensified his terrorist war, sending his agents around the world to murder and maim innocents...
Khanjar, speaking at the invitation of the Republican Club, described the toy bombs and mines used by the Soviets against Afghan citizens in an "unsuccessful attempt to demoralize the Afghani people." Such weapons, which maim and mutilate rather than kill, have been banned by the Geneva Convention...
...Cornell, the main chance was now the maim chance. For Harvard, survival was the central strategy...
...seem to be murdering one another with a malign indifference, killing with the casual air of Bruce Lee dispatching men in a kung fu movie. For some, it seems as if murder has become a kind of noxious fashion or wanton recreation. "Members of the new generation kill, maim and injure without reason or remorse," writes Silberman...
...fact that the wounds of the ten sailors who were "seriously injured" by the mines laid inside Nicaragua's harbors would "hardly be noticed in a declared war" does little to alleviate their suffering. Mines maim and kill in wars, declared or undeclared, whether used by peace-seeking or warmongering nations...