Ms. Lockwood, 32, has been charged with murder in what investigators say was the systematic slow starvation of a child she did not want.

So what remained was to kill the weapon by slow starvation of knowledge.

After almost three years of slow starvation and disease in the Warsaw ghetto, such fatalism came easy.

The rations human woodchoppers got were made for slow starvation, too.

All they'd buy if they did was slow starvation, and they knew it.

There was another and more immediate danger than slow starvation: supplies of ball and powder running out.

He shows the dagger he has brought which will enable them both to have a quick death and avoid slow starvation.

Perhaps we shall find only bullets where we try to land, but even that will be better than slow starvation in bitter cold.

Come now, you don't really think I'm trying anything as crude as slow starvation.

None could afford for long to hold themselves aloof unless they wished to embrace slow starvation.