Word: maims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Johnson was lucky. A "Destructor" contains enough dynamite to blind or maim anyone dismantling it, and enough thermite to create a fire which most people would have trouble putting...
There are other more understandable but equally inexplicable anomalies: how some marines (especially officers) spend so much time investigating the licentious pleasures of the cities; how other marines sometimes kill and maim Chinese by reckless driving, or in deliberate mayhem and murder committed while drunk...
...They passed the ammunition for 105-mm. howitzers. They dug slit trenches, staggered across swaying bridges of wire and planks (the less nimble tumbled six feet down into muddy water), paddled assault boats over mined, smoke-screened Driftwood River, grappled hand-to-neck while instructors barked: "Be ruthless-kill, maim, gouge his eyes, stick your fingers up his nostrils, give him a knee in the kidneys...
...should have a special boat reserved for members of the Master Race. What democratic weaknesses are these! And your centaurs with bows & arrows, and your beds of hot sand and serpents and wasps! What you need here are tanks and flamethrowers and soft-nosed bullets. And why do you maim heretics, and bury gluttons in mud and traitors up to their necks in ice? Why, every man in the Party would be caught in your tortures - and they are your own best disciples. They steal and lie and become traitors if need be, but only because they are strong...