Word: kill
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Lyndon Johnson rumbled against Dirksen's "sneak play"-and pulled off one of his own. He got Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, ardent champion of civil rights, to offer a motion to "table" the bill-a congressional euphemism for kill. Cried Clark: "I believe I can recognize the hand of politics ... I do not believe civil rights ought to stand in the way of the prompt enactment of proposed legislation which is on the calendar and ready for action." The vote was strictly party-line, and the Democratic majority tabled civil rights by a lopsided...
...hands by "breaking away from the U.N. force and pursuing a unilateral policy." When Russia's Kuznetsov heavily denounced Hammarskjold for not ordering the U.N. to fight its way into Katanga, Hammarskjold answered: "I do not personally believe we help the Congolese by actions in which Africans kill Africans or Congolese kill Congolese...
...been 146 years since Swedish troops last went into battle in the nearly bloodless 1814 war with Norway. A derisive jingle commemorates their prowess: "Ten thousand Swedes marched through the weeds, to kill one poor Norwegian...
...then darts back as it lunges for her. The game continues until the male jaguar takes over, feints past the cayman's jaws, gets a death grip and drowns the reptile. The jaguars lose no battles, although their prey sometimes escapes. Working singly or as a team, they kill a snorting peccary (wild pig) and a huge boa constrictor, and frighten a tapir out of its scant wits...
Plus four remarkably fine first novels: The Bridge, by Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of Nazi teen-age conscripts thrown into the suicidal campaigns of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains but this time those of a less savory hero...