Word: maiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some cases, you and your roommate will have what divorce courts call "irreconcilable differences," a euphemism for "I hate you--DIE!" In some cases, you will plot to kill, or at least maim, the person who has been inflicted on you. In some of those cases, rare though they may be, you will succeed...
...represents oppression. In New York, one of the few states that still prohibit capital punishment, legislators are yet again debating the death penalty. The monster is unimpressed. "Willie Bosket is gonna keep striking," he says. "If they / bring back the death penalty, I won't kill. I'll just maim. I want to live every day I can just to make them regret what they've done...
...Cornell fan waved a sign that read, "Fight, Maim, Kill," at the Cornell-St. Lawrence ECAC semifinal game in the Boston Garden last night, but it was the Big Red which took the beating...
...withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan after a 10-year struggle against native resistance slays this pet theory. The Soviets certainly did not scruple to wage total war. They burned villages, planted toy-shaped antipersonnel mines designed to maim children and indiscriminantly executed non-combatants. Estimates put the civilian death toll at more that one million...
Chief Justice Ayatollah Reza Laza Meza: Young man, we do not have the reputation as the most hateful nation on earth for nothing. The world expects us to bomb and maim, not to get ripped off by a bunch of satanic Americans. I sentence you to three years of hard labor pulling the food out of Khomeni's beard. In addition, I declare a national week of prayer. During this holy period, I would also encourage citizens to spit on pictures of the new Head Satan, George Bush...