Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...admitted on cross-examination that she had made the statement: "I am certain that Mrs. Borroto was dead before Dr. Sander entered her room. She had death pallor. She was not breathing ... I would say that Mrs. Borroto was dead when Dr. Snay saw her. Dr. Sander did not kill her because she was dead when this injection was made...
...Thou Shalt Not Kill." But that kind of argument was not material to the real case of Dr. Sander. Had he done a good deed or committed a great sin? The state's answer was that Dr. Sander had committed a sin against society, tearing apart some of its moral and legal fabric; that fabric had to be repaired, no matter what the defendant's own interpretation of what was right and what was wrong...
...appalling swiftness with which death in the form of natural diseases snatches the young." A baby may be overwhelmed in a few hours by a disease of such an "explosive" type that no symptoms are showing when the child is put to bed. Most of the explosive diseases which kill infants in bed (sometimes by suffocation) involve the upper respiratory tract, ears or heart...
...this sort of talk, other equally informed physicists react with astonishment or distaste. They point out that no one knows accurately how much continued radiation is needed to kill a man. There may be preventives or cures. No one knows how H-bombs will work or how soon they can be made to work. Kindly critics say that Brown, Szilard et al. have been led by emotion to confuse the worst possibilities of the future with the sufficiently alarming present. Some, not so kindly, charge that the alarmists, however well-intentioned they may be, are helping to frighten...
...himself. He answered her questions, saying yes he was having a pretty good time at the dance, and then he felt a tap on his shoulder. Her first partner was back. Vag went to get his coat and leave. Tomorrow he would start auditing a GE course. That would kill two birds with one stone...