Word: flintiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humanitarianism can take root in the flintiest soil. Even killing ground. While the national debate about the death penalty goes on, the Texas Senate last week passed a bill to make the method of execution in Texas "injection of a substance in a quantity to cause death." Electric chairs now wait for the some 58 inmates on Texas' death row, and Representative Ben Grant, who sponsored the original assembly bill, explains: "We've gone from stoning to the cross to the guillotine and now we need a more modern method. The current ritual of burning a person...
...Marilyn the Wild, Jerome Char-yn's ninth novel, father questing becomes a bizarre and moving search-and-destroy mission. Isaac Sidel, the flintiest, least corrupt, most overbearing cop in New York, is a self-appointed patriarch of the Lower East Side. For 20 years he has kept his microcosm free of outside influence. But too many people now find it hard to breathe when he is around...