Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Welders burned their way through twisted steel. Doctors crawled after them, administering morphine, amputating limbs to extricate still breathing people. A man impaled on a steel beam pleaded for someone to kill...
...foothills of southern Formosa's terraced mountains, youthful soldiers shout "Shat Sha!" (Kill! Kill!) as they lunge at practice dummies with bayonets. The huge military training camp at Feng-shan echoes with machine-gun chatter, and squads of infantrymen work under live ammunition fire. Fengshan's combat course is modeled after the training system used in the U.S. in World War II, and the camp's officers call it "the cradle of the new Chinese army...
...Godfrey's morning audience and 80% of his former sponsors. NBC retaliated by bringing down a New York announcer named Don Douglas to buck Arthur. Unreasonably terrified by the threat of big-city competition, Godfrey convinced Butcher that he should stay on the air all night to kill Douglas' first broadcast. Since WJSV closed down at midnight, Godfrey had to broadcast from the transmitter in a swamp near Alexandria, Va., with no other props than a telephone, turntable and some records...
...this region," writes Ruesch, "all life was exclusively carnivorous. Bear was man's biggest prize. Man was bear's biggest prize. Here it had not yet been decided whether man or bear was the crown of creation." But polar man knew a pretty sure way to kill polar bear. After spotting his game, he hid a tightly coiled splint of whalebone in a ball of blubber, froze it intact, and bowled it across the snow to the bear. After a few suspicious licks, the hungry bear usually gulped it down. Soon the blubber melted, releasing the coiled splint...
...danger was added last week to the hazards of everyday living. Carbon tetrachloride, an important ingredient in most non-inflammable cleaning fluids and many hand fire extinguishers, was described by three General Electric Co. doctors as a dangerous poison which can kill or cause serious illness...