Word: slit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relinquish any nuclear, chemical, biological or ballistic weapons in its possession as a condition for a cease- fire in the Persian Gulf war, it probably never envisioned the scene that took place in the mountains north of Baghdad last week. While United Nations experts looked on, Iraqi workers slit holes in the barrels of five "superguns" that Baghdad could have used to hurl shells at neighbors 400 miles away...
...unrape someone. You can't sew up a slit throat. The survivor knows what has happened to her body. She knows what happened to her mind. She knows what happened to her soul. She knows it HURT. And it is inexcusable that someone, for whatever reason, thought it was okay to hurt her that way. It is also inexcusable and disrespectful to scratch up her tender, healing wounds by attempting to rewrite her life. Whatever you say cannot undo the crime which occurred. An attempt to understand her story would have been a fine and admirable thing. An attempt...
...student in grade school, she began skipping classes, dating a physically abusive older student and wearing only black. By winter, she was trying to kill herself. Sara, who says she felt rejected by her parents, calmly recites her attempts: "Four or five times I took pills. Once I almost slit my wrists, and I tried to hang myself once." With therapy, Sara, at 15, sees a future. One sign: she is wearing colors again...
GOODFELLAS. The fellas -- Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci -- are anything but good in Martin Scorsese's homicidally funny portrait of a Mafia family. They kill, maim and rob; they rat on their friends or slit their throats. This vast fresco of criminal amorality is also a how-to book for making it big and gaudy in New York City...
...discipline or distemper. At their best they have a sense of honor and a fear of their bosses that would do credit to the medieval church. At their worst they play their sick whims on the weak, and when the sport grows tiresome, they rat on their friends or slit a few throats. They are gangsters, hit men, wise guys -- good fellas, in the parlance of dapper don John Gotti and wizard filmmaker Martin Scorsese...