Word: killingly
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...this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
...Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually prepared by the cook to kill Pasha. This inscrutable animal lives on, after the youth is dead, a silent, stately monopolist of morbidly curious attention, in the minds of the English protagonists...
...recalled that the demented woman, now 50, once said that she attempted to commit suicide "for the glory of God." Sitting in her cell at Rome, her face and neck scratched, her dress untidy, she declared: "Supernatural forces entrusted me with the lofty mission of attempting to kill Mussolini...
...marching onward. If I advance, follow me. If I retire, kill me. If I am killed, avenge...
...Developed for smallpox by Edward Jenner (1749-1823). In all vaccinations the patient is deliberately given a mild attack of the particular disease he wants to guard against. The blood then develops certain properties which kill off the attacks of that disease, except in the very greatest concentrations...