Word: maiming
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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...
...today the concrete cooling towers standing in open fields or alongside rivers appear to many as monuments to a god that failed. Much of the public fears that nuclear plants are sending out mysterious and unseen radiation that will maim generations to come, or may somehow explode...