Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century. A clumsy, pigeon-like groundling, larger than a turkey, the dodo lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Life in that restricted world was so safe and so easy that the dodo became defenseless. With the arrival of settlers on Mauritius, the birds were slaughtered by man & beast. The dodo's flesh was tough and tasteless and it might have survived in spite of its dim-witted clumsiness-but pigs smashed the eggs and monkeys ate the young...
Great Scott! That's no way to lift a calf! That's making the outstretched arms do most of the work. That'll kill you in time. You've got to get under your beast and lift with all the power of your legs and shoulders...
...Nazi Joseph Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen," had any professional interest left, he must have been amused at the bungling British. The British military executioner, known only as Pierrepont, had laid out a seven-hour schedule of ceremony and work just to hang eleven people. That would have been small potatoes to Kramer; 45,000 had died by torture, starvation and gas in his Belsen concentration camp...
...Russians had clamored: "When will they hang the dog?" Last week at Lüneburg, a British Army court sentenced Joseph Kramer, the "beast of Belsen," to death by hanging. His blonde, sadistic assistant, 22-year-old Irma Grese, and nine others were sentenced to the same death. Fraulein Grese sobbed. Of the 33 other defendants, 14 were acquitted, one got life, five got 15-year sentences, 13 got one to ten years...
...Congress could not help asking itself a bloodcurdling question: what happened if the beast got loose? As the Military Affairs Committee argued and amended, Congress began to realize how little it knew about its quarry. It also began to suspect that the President and the Army and the scientists knew little more...