Word: kill
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...when the House education bill (calling for $1.3 billion over four years) came up for debate at midweek, the House put on a messy display of cross-purposed confusion. Amendments and proposals that would kill or maim the bill popped up and down like ducks at a sideshow shooting gallery. The Congressman whose proposal did the most harm was New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., political boss of Harlem. He insisted on attaching the old familiar "Powell Amendment," a rider that would withhold federal funds from segregated schools. Powell occasionally manages to tack on his nuisance amendment, sometimes killing...
...rebel' is very easy. To grow a beard, to be sexually brave, to take dope even to kill-all these are understood experiences of 'nonconformism.' The one thing you cannot do is think, i.e., to build on your private definition of the world, and so to enjoy what Thomas Mann called the 'wealth of the mind'-that which makes a writer feel that he has a world in his hand ... I insist that in present terms, the theater of perversion, of 'sexual frankness,' of open violence, moves us farther away from the authentic...
...world's land snakes, the Australian tiger snake is rated as about the most deadly. It needs to inject only 2 mg. of venom to kill a man, whereas the notorious hooded cobra must inject about 20 mg., and a big rattlesnake as much as 140 mg. Fortnight ago, Kenneth Earnest, 22, who helps run his family's reptile farm in Buena Park, 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, had a run-in with a greenish-grey and black-banded tiger snake. He almost lost...
...horse's hoof. Cowboy Kelly hated the 20th century. He went to his last movie in 1929. He would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases with chipper little figures going about their daily chores, drinking their beer, sparking, preparing their feasts-all under a bright sky of perpetual blue...
...with my thick socks on"-he is ideally built to withstand the hours of high-speed driving in a racer's tiny cockpit. His experience has taught him every trick of handling the 250-h.p. Grand Prix cars. He can swing a car into a slide to kill speed, use a bank bordering on a turn, as a buffer to keep his rear wheels on the road. He won last year's Italian Grand Prix by "slipstreaming"-tailing a Ferrari so closely that the rival car acted as a windbreak, letting Moss conserve precious fuel and tires...