Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Buddhist monk may not preach until the congregation asks him to. He usually asks that they gain bunya by agreeing (for one day, not for life) to obey five commandments: 1) thou shalt not kill anything, not even the mosquito that bites you, 2) nor steal, 3) nor lie, 4) nor commit adultery, 5) nor take intoxicating drinks. Many Siamese strike a balance between bunya and bapa by agreeing to observe commandments 4 and 5 only on alternate days...
...siren call. Dr. Kahn's experiment worked successfully in Cuba's malarial swamps (TIME, Oct. 11, 1948), but at that time the electrified nets surrounding the loudspeakers were charged with dangerous voltage. Says Dr. Kahn: "Our problem now is to devise an instrument which will kill the mosquito but spare the child...
...months the U.S. public has been assured, through printed and radioed advertising blurbs, that antihistamine tablets will stop colds, kill colds, prevent colds, or save a cold sufferer from some worse illness. Many U.S. doctors have insisted that such sweeping claims were, at best, not fully proved. But sales of the little pills went right on up to tens of millions of dollars...
...help the police in combating juvenile delinquency, and 2) prove that crime doesn't pay. Last week, a critic who should know told the radiomen to think up a better defense. Writing in the Monthly Record of Connecticut State Prison, Convict Le-Roy Nash (assault with intent to kill, 20-25 years) reported on 50 programs he had studied over a two-week period...
...revoked whenever a holder was guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, or whenever the censors decided a film encouraged "contempt for public or private morality." In short, whenever the censors disapproved of the private life of an actor-or the content of a film itself-they could kill the movie by their license-revoking powers...