Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guests left their weapons outside the kraal with their women & children. At the height of the festivity, after a tumultuous war dance, Dingaan's Zulus fell upon the Dutchmen, dragged them to the hill of execution, beat them to death with knobkerries, then surged on the Boer wagons to massacre the women & children...
...family. Dingaan's brother and predecessor, the frightful Chief Tchaka, slaughtered an estimated 1,000,000 fellow blacks in genocidal wars. He liquidated women as useless, mourned his mother's death by killing 7,000 followers, was himself murdered by Dingaan...
With this surgery, plus special diet and close observation, Dr. Toma and his colleagues have been able to reduce the death rate in the two homes by 75% in the last two years...
...Commenting on the sudden death of a comrade who was running to catch a train, Railton once wrote: "Today's great news to me has been that of Major Elmslie's glorious rush up the railway steps into heaven...
...sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin to do battle with the lion, cheerily assures...