Word: maiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least, has the public solidly behind it, too much deregulation zeal could backfire. Many of the Government rules were written because of serious problems of polluted rivers, foul air and dangerous workplaces. The public opposed excessive and petty rule making, but it does not now want consumer products that maim or injure buyers...
Your observation is premature. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I plan to introduce legislation that will ban "Saturday night specials." The bill will strive to take these guns off the market. These weapons have absolutely no purpose other than to kill or maim human beings...
Although blessed with challenging work, social position and comparative wealth, doctors contend with long hours and the knowledge that a single mistake can maim, disable or even kill. These pressures often carry over into their personal lives. Says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Robert Litman: "By and large, doctors are not good, steady companions. They're good providers but lousy lovers...
...enjoyed two kinds of training the most; firearms and "defensive tactics." I learned how to take a gun away from a man and to tear off his trigger finger into the bargain. I learned to kill a man with no more than a pencil; to maim; to blind...
...uncle wounded. Nearly everyone also has kin in either the police or army. Many of the injured in the old bazaar, where some of the most vicious fighting went on, literally bled to death from leg wounds; their Afghan soldier brothers had aimed low in order to maim rather than kill. In the northwest part of the city, a group of protesters wielding sticks and captured guns marched on the Kharga military barracks and urged the Afghan unit there to disband. According to witnesses, at least 200 Afghan army personnel defected and joined the throng...