Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knees in tunnels sometimes no higher than a yardstick, wading through mud and water, burrowing through unutterable darkness. Nearly every miner can name a friend or family member who has been killed, maimed or stricken with black lung disease. "You die quick or you die slow," says Hassell Butcher, chief of Logan County's tax department...
...women were stabbed in my butcher's shop only last month," my host insisted, "so how can you expect me to take my young daughters into the market? I now have our help, who is Arab, shop for me. I had always insisted on maintaining relations with these people who live just down the street from me, but I am afraid now, and I have simple stopped visiting that part of the city. You know what my butcher told me when I went back, briefly, the other day?" Well, we wouldn't stab you, you know...
...government, 18,000 people have died. But that is only the beginning of the carnage. Much of Sri Lanka's north and east have been devastated economically, and the murderous campaigns of both sides have shattered any hope of trust between Tamils and Sinhalese perhaps for generations. Both sides butcher their enemies, and an Amnesty International report claims that the Sri Lankan army killed thousands of civilians in Tamil areas last year. In less than a decade, the island has become heavily militarized. In the early 1980s, it had a small army of 16,000 and a defense budget...
CHOPPING BLOCK. Angry because some songs were cut from the U.S. versions of previous albums, the Beatles posed for Yesterday and Today in butcher's smocks with pieces of meat. Capitol Records pasted a different photo over the cover...
...himself. There followed one of the age's grand political soap operas, with teary meetings, prayers and arguments. But Nixon did it. Later he would recall the words of Britain's heroic Prime Minister William Gladstone: "The first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher...