Body count

Senator BYRD of West Virginia. Why do we minimize our losses as apparently we do? I find it extremely difficult to believe that there have been 6,200 VC and NVA killed by body count, whereas we have only lost 193 Americans and 335 ARVN troops.

Navy Lt. Cole Cowden, accused of indecent assault and conduct unbecoming an officer at the 1991 Tailhook convention, says he is the target of a quest for a 'body count' in the investigation and not because he did anything wrong at the annual convention of Naval aviators.

In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp and Creech laying waste to his inventory.

On Tuesday, three stories that led the home page of Columbia Journalism Review were about Colorado, a state that has become a battlefield in the new newspaper wars— where journalists fight their hedge-fund owners.

In the case of the liquidation of the Slonim ghetto in September 1942, police-men “bragged about the number of women they had abused in this manner and tried to outdo one another.” Much like keeping score of one’s body count, the numbers of rapes served individual perpetrators as a personal record of their own virility and masculinity, and as a means of group bonding.

The novelty of women’s public protest shifted from a shocking sight of women filling the streets to a body count. Women protested their living conditions of impoverishment, and demanded their rights as citizens (not subjects) of India, and they were killed.

As the body count rose, Tarrant quickly became a hero who had achieved a “new high score,” surpassing the former record holder Seung-Hui Cho of Virginia Tech. Tarrant attained instant cult status in the community.

The numbers don’t matter. It’s not a body count, a scratch-pad list or a boast. Statistics obscure intent and meaning. My toll is therefore ambiguous. Girlfriends, wives, one-night stands, paid companions. Chaste early figures. A high-stat blitz later on. Quantity means shit in my case.

[He wants] sex even if he has the woman he wants, just to increase his body count. He strings you along just for the sex. Tell you what you wanna hear but never follow thru, heck! Some modern women go so far as paying his bills and car payments.

[…] whether or not a woman should disclose her body count to her new boyfriend. Body count, for those readers who have enjoyed an enviably sheltered life, is the contemporary term for the number of men with whom she has shared physical intimacy. These women seem to experience considerable discomfort when asked about their "body count."