Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer sell gold to all takers at $35 an ounce and the price were allowed to rise to meet the demand, the speculators stood to make a handsome profit, just as they had in the devaluation of the pound sterling last November. Having tasted blood then, many scented another kill -and, in their wild buying, ripped and clawed at the remaining gold stocks in the Gold Pool...
...watching Tom Jones; I liked the happy emergence of the killer in him whenever someone challenged him. His only contented moments in the middle acts came when faced by the blood-thirsty crowd--out comes the sword from the boot and Jones walks calmly in for the kill. Though he has a tendency to lapse into whining Burtonisms, Jones dominated the play: no mean feat considering the chaos with which Babe surrounds...
...student who particularly sought out our company was a militant who told us he wanted to see Raleigh burn. "I feel hate," he told us, "I could kill a white man." A penetrating look, then a broad grin: "Not you, man!" He let us know he wasn't just being friendly to please us. His decision to be friendly (and it was his decision, not ours) was an act of generosity...
...Crimson fumbled twice to kill their scoring threats. Steers carried for repeated long gains, and Oregon drove from midfield to the Harvard 15 by the end of the first period...
...system used in racing models of the Corvette, drove Chrysler temporarily out of racing in 1965 by banning its "hemi-head" engine; neither, he decreed, qualified as "stock" because ordinary street drivers could not buy them. "France made stock-car racing," a Chrysler official groused. "Now he'll kill...