Word: mortalizes
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...march that turns out to be an ambush-long avenues of Moorish troops stand at rigid attention, each with a quick viking blade at his back. In the subsequent melee, even the lovely Schiaffino is impaled on a lance the size of a mizzenmast. Though such wounds are invariably mortal, they never seem the least bit serious. And that is probably what keeps Ships from going under...
What is original in the modern view-point, Pusey said, is its paramount concern with man as a victim of predicament--"an anguished, mortal creature in an absurd world...
...finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could make the humdrum business of ordering a cup of coffee a mortal combat...
...Tetu and Dave Kuhn are adequate triple jumpers by mortal standards, but can't compete with the likes of Chris Ohiri. Allen and Kuhn should fall to Ohiri and Aggrey Awori in the broad jump, and Army sprinters Bob Ramsay and Jim Jenkins may do no better than third and fourth against the same pair...
...also suffered mortal wounds in a hang-the-cost contest for supremacy be tween Houston's other two papers, the morning Post and the evening Chronicle. After all three papers went to a dime in 1961, only the Press failed to recover lost ground. Its circulation fell to 89,000 - against the Post's 225,000 and the Chronicle's 227,000. Last week both surviving papers were bidding briskly for the Press's abandoned flock with offers of free papers...