Word: maiming
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...police superintendent] very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to issue a police order to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city...
Sargent cited the substantial increase in bombings during the past year reported by the National Bomb Data Center, and stressed the need for the protection of the people of Massachusetts "against savage attacks by those who would maim and kill recklessly...
...been extended from six months to a year. Rabies is an even worse worry in Lima, Peru, which has as many dogs as it has people. Americans may soon face another problem. A new boom in "attack dogs" is creating protectors trained (for as much as $4,000) to maim or kill marauders, but there are already cases of robbers using their own dogs to subdue victims...
...quality of life, and too often nowadays it seems that man's dreams of Utopia have become nightmares of dirt and despair. The atmosphere stifles rather than sustains; water poisons rather than refreshes; machinery and appliances invented for service and comfort fail to function and sometimes even maim and kill. What has anyone done about it? Until fairly recently, not a great deal. This week TIME'S cover tells the story of Ralph Nader, one man who felt that something had to be done-and set out to do it himself. Nader has spearheaded many of the gains...
...Talk about sick! Look around once quick. What did you see? The sickness, boy, is in you and me! His thing doesn't kill, maim or addict. His thing is love and that's not sick...