Word: bloodlusting
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...police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been making sheep and poultry raids in the neighborhood. Reconstructing the scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys, tossing them through windows in frenzied bloodlust. New York law requires each county to indemnify owners of livestock killed by raiding dogs. Day after the slaughter an assessor was at Ashgrove appraising the damage. One day last week Saratoga County heard how much the turkeys had cost it-$459, at three dollars a head. Next night, despite...
...falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just...
...Killer Kuerten was sentenced to death nine times for a fiendish series of bloodlust killings. Dusseldorf children, who had been going to school in vans guarded by armed policemen, played in the streets again. Peter Kuerten confessed all his crimes, muttered that when his head throbbed he just had to kill...
...Carmen music that is always played, to the way the "butcher" or dagger-man delivers one last stroke of mercy when the bull is in his death throes. Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust is but one among many appetites?for seething, hot colors; for the glare of white sun-light on torrid sand; for violent animal action; for full-throated screaming; for rich wine, amorous deviltries; and a swift, red death rather than a gray...