Word: slays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good news is that Harvard seems incredibly determined to slay the Bears...
...experts hope to complete a psychological profile of the typical snatch- and-slay perpetrator next year. In the one recent case where the murderer was caught, however -- the killing of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma, California, by Richard Allen Davis, 39 -- there was less interest in Davis' psyche than in his rap sheet. First booked at age 12 for stealing checks, he escaped charges in the shotgun death of a girlfriend seven years later but served a total of eight years for a burglary and two assaults on other women, one involving kidnapping. Free again...
That attitude is slowly starting to change. Today youngsters who slay abusive parents are drawing more understanding from a public that has awakened to the national nightmare of child abuse. Last year an estimated 2.7 million youngsters were physically, mentally and sexually assaulted by their parents, % according to the National Center for Prevention of Child Abuse. Despite the prevalence of abuse, parricide remains rare. It accounts for about 2% of all homicides, around 300 cases a year. Most of those involve teenagers who kill abusive parents. Though the numbers are small, these youngsters "open a window on our understanding...
Armenians slay 200 civilians...
...young, like Bill Clinton, should never have been faced with the dilemma of either fighting that war or being traitors. It was as if American power, like an Aztec sun god, required terrible infusions of blood. Either sacrifice yourselves upon the altar of Vietnam, the drama demanded, or slay the fathers, tear down their house...