Word: abattoir
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...lovely brutes who classifies women by zoological categories, and has made indifference to other people into an art of living. When orders come from Vichy to round up all Jews into internment camps, he sets about his task with the precision of an official in an abattoir...
State of the Union (M-G-M). In Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse's Pulitzer Prize satire, a number of political animals (a presidential candidate, professional politician, lady publisher, big businessman, labor leader, etc.) were herded into a sort of literary abattoir. There they were bludgeoned with ridicule, skewered with wit and butchered with invective; the raw meat was flung to Broadway audiences who ate it up for almost two years. Finally, the whole delightful shambles was tossed (for a down payment of $300,000) to The Great Knacker, Hollywood...
With a casualty list of thirty-five serious injuries so far this season, House teams have a proportionately greater rate of dismemberment than the more carefully tutored Varsity. Broken ankles, mashed noses, and collar bones twisted into the shape of a pretzel turn the intramural league into a sporty abattoir. While a certain number of injuries must be expected in any sport emphasizing body contact, the large number and character of the injuries incurred by House football players seems entirely out of proportion with the type of game played in the College...
Quagmire and Abattoir. "Withdrawal from France" was a grim phrase, for official German utterance. The prospects of actually withdrawing the remaining German forces were grimmer still. France was now a quagmire as well as an abattoir. The German Seventh Army, foolishly reinforced by elements of the Fifteenth which had been guarding the robot-bomb coast, was pinned against the Seine, under a withering blast of Allied fire from the ground...
Last week, to the great, grim tragedy of France was added the Nazi Terror. With superb irony, its setting was Paris' shoddy, working-class XIe Arrondissement (eleventh ward), once the cradle, now the abattoir of French Republicanism. France was stirring against the Germans and the Germans had no intention of letting the stir progress to an upheaval...