Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...said to him, 'As you did against international law and prevaricating the right of nations, you owe me to be killed. I will kill...
Every general has his pet dicta. One of Almond's favorites is "no tanks to the rear," a logical sequence of his conviction that a soldier must use every weapon he has to the uttermost to kill the foe and save his own skin. "The place of the tank," he explains, "is at the front destroying the enemy. If it goes back, even though for gasoline, we lose two things: firepower and the morale of the foot soldier. The foot soldier moving up can well ask himself, 'What the hell?' if a tank passes him going...
...slate-grey and black-barred peregrine falcon (duck hawk) is one of the speediest and most powerful of all flying organisms. It flies on the level at 60 m.p.h., dives at 180, knocks out its quarry (birds up to the size of duck) with its steely talons, kills only what it will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean...
From the start it is clear that Greer Garson has been stricken with one of those dread, nameless Hollywood diseases that will kill her off in the last reel. She receives the news with a chin-up, clear-eyed gallantry that has her doctor blubbering. When Walter Pidgeon, her remarkably obtuse husband, finally catches on, he too is reduced to choked-up admiration. Meanwhile, Greer gently discourages a U.S. colonel (John Hodiak) who is in love with her, straightens out the affairs of her nitwit daughter (Cathy O'Donnell), and sets right the tangled marriage of a British general...
...companies still have plenty of room in which to expand. Only 13.4% of U.S. families now drink frozen orange juice regularly; frozen vegetables amount to only a fraction of the total market. Optimistic frozen-food men think that if grocers would increase their freezer space they could "just about kill the fresh vegetable market...