Word: shred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite. Two weeks ago, the disciplinary board of the Washington, D.C., bar recommended that Kleindienst be suspended for one year. Last week it released its confidential findings and conclusions. They shred Kleindienst's defense and condemn by implication the kid-glove kindness that was shown...
...Sort, Shred, Burn. About 25 major cities across the nation are now going into the garbage game, and at least another dozen are considering taking the plunge. Most of them are following the path blazed first hi Europe and now in St. Louis, where the Union Electric Co. has contracted to take all the trash from the city and seven surrounding counties. It will sort and sell the metals to recyclers, shred the combustible materials and burn them along with coal to create electrical power. When the system goes into full effect in 1977, Union will reduce its annual purchases...
Ambiguous Clues. Watching his sister for "signs of wellness," Richard notes, "Meg is now almost feeding herself. When she eats, food splashes over her chin . . . but that only means she's eating with more zest." He desperately tries to find in her crankiest non sequitur some shred of sanity or sense. He does his best to forget that she spends a good deal of time kissing the mirror and dangles the kitten he gave her by its tail...
...rather it is set by "the continuous and continuing Communist buildup." In fact, materiel from both Hanoi and the U.S. contribute to the tempo of military action. Martin never directly claims that there have been no South Vietnamese violations of the ceasefire; he attacks Shipler for not presenting "a shred of evidence" of such violations. "The U.S.," he insists, "has no military advisers in South Viet Nam; no advice is given the Vietnamese in contravention of the Paris agreements." He charges that Shipler's claim of U.S. advice to South Vietnamese police is "utterly false and known...
Flechettes are small steel nails, with protruding fins at one end, designed to enlarge the wounds as they enter the body. Doctors report that flechettes peel off the outer tissue, shred internal organs, lodge in blood vessels deep in the body, and are more difficult to remove than any other antipersonnel device...