Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Inasmuch as I never waste my money by purchasing TIME and never read it unless I have time to kill, which is seldom, it has just come to my attention that in the March 20 issue of your magazine I was listed as an "expendable" Senator-one who does not merit reelection. I am well pleased that I merit TIME'S disapproval...
...vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by the airline). Later, Betty Grant, a plump woman with an upswept hairdo, got some more news: her husband had promised to marry a slender, red-haired American Airlines stewardess named Elizabeth Soumela, who knew nothing of his plans to kill his family, and thought his divorce was about to come through. In New York, a 32-year-old private secretary identified Grant as the father of her three-year-old baby, and said that Grant was $1,000 in arrears on the money the court had ordered...
Ronald Colman is Mr. Popkin's knight on white horse, armed with an inexhaustible supply of knowledge. After watching a program called "Masquerade For Money," Colman decides that the level of intelligence encouraged by this program is the fore-runner of intellectual degeneration, and slowly forms a plan to kill the program...
...there contained Viet Minh literature, or guns, or large stocks of rice." The captain swatted at buzzing insects with an old French newspaper. "They never fight us unless they outnumber us," he went on. "We can never win this fight militarily. It's just like trying to kill mosquitoes with a sledge hammer...
From the acres of advertisements used to push these products, FTC picked such claims as these for Anahist: "New Miracle Drug stops cold symptoms in a single day"; "Now say Goodbye to colds with Anahist"; "Prevents sneezing, coughing and running noses." For Resistab: "Kills colds in one day"; ".. . To guard my family against colds." For Kriptin: "Kill a cold at the very start-kill it completely-not in days but in hours"; "No more sneezing -stopped-up nose-aches and pains-no more miserable days in bed trying to 'outlast' a cold...