Word: kill
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...same Ghanaian troops that Lumumba himself had ordered to leave the country only a week before. One Congolese charged the building with a hand grenade, another with a Sten gun. but the Ghanaians turned them back at bayonet point. "Lumumba must die!" the crowd shouted. "He made us kill our brothers!" For nine hours' Lumumba cowered inside, first in a laundry closet and then in a bedroom, while Lundula hid out in a vegetable...
...alone, more than 400 totally new chemicals are introduced each year. They kill bugs, clean carpets, run automobiles and wash dishes. Some of them even fight disease. But when their usefulness is ended, they often find their way-as waste-into the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Often invisible and immune to bacteriological attack, they damage plants, kill fish, slip undetected through sewage-treatment plants, and blanket entire cities with clouds of noxious vapor. Some, like sulphur dioxide, are clearly toxic-memorably so in the five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora...
...school board of Galax, Va. (pop. 5,200) is composed of shrewd men who know how to kill two birds with one stone. Galax has long had a contract to take in white high school students from adjacent Grayson County, and the 285 students cost money. When a federal court recently ordered Galax to take in eight Negro county students as well, the board saw its chance. To save both money and segregation, it simply canceled the contract with Grayson County...
...Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time allowed the patronage-hungry legislature to kill off the civil service system...
...Kill a Mockingbird...