killers

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Ford, who escaped two would-be killers in less than one month, only narrowly lost the 1976 election despite running in the shadow of Watergate.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026

But most of us will become more susceptible to killers like cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s as we get older.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

A memorial to a police officer, whose death on duty led to tougher sentences for the killers of emergency workers, has been unveiled by his widow.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

The two suspected killers, Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams, sat fiddling with their phones on a trailer hitched to Boyd’s white Ram TRX.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The principal recorded killers were smallpox, influenza, measles, typhoid, typhus, chicken pox, whooping cough, tuberculosis, and syphilis.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond