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Willingness to kill in defense of one's family, maintained its position of second "favorite" motive, showing that in spite of the psychological pressure on students caused by the war, the instinct to maintain the safety of oneself and one's family remain as the strongest potential actives for killing...
...were iron armrests every two feet along the benches. "How could I distribute myself under them? I tried one leg. Then the other. But when I was under, how could I turn around?" To passersby, George said, "How many clock?" They showed him the time. "Rapidly, if one applies oneself," George reflected, "one speaks the English...
...confine oneself to slurs and not include also the complimentary allusions?" asks Author Roback, assailing such "wrongheadedness." The answer, according to Dr. Roback, is simple: such complimentary allusions are virtually nonexistent...
...conquer oneself, to curb anger, to spare the vanquished, to raise the fallen enemy-a man who does this I shall not compare with the greatest of men, but will deem as most like...
...present, they show that blood vessels were ruptured by the rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself in the head is not the quickest or surest suicide method. Shooters often live for hours or days after hitting themselves. It is very difficult to shoot oneself in the heart (the bullet usually ricochets off the breastbone or a rib). Oddly, suicides never seem to shoot themselves through their clothes...