Word: exterminatee
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Were it possible, perhaps most Americans would want to see Andy May's recommendation carried out in full. But the New York Times spoke more wisely: "We cannot and must not think that they represent the entire Japanese nation. . . . There have been poets, artists and philosophers in Japan, and...
Seed of the Martyrs. Periodically, the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Piedmont (the present Italian royal house) sent soldiers to exterminate them. The terrible Piedmont Easter massacre (1655) moved Oliver Cromwell to decree a public fast to show English sympathy for the Waldensians. Cromwell warned the Duke of...
When the late Gustavus Myers first conceived this book (in 1925), he may not have thought that his theme would become more topical than the perpetuity of human malevolence. But since World War II began, surges of intolerance have grown so commonplace that the 20th Century, long accustomed to regarding...
At a Georgia air base a harassed captain sat down and wrote this note: "To: Medical Supply Officer: "1) Following telephone information from your office that you were unable to issue carbon disulphide for use in this office in ant control, and following receipt of your letter listing insect repellents...
"In those maps we behold a mind unconsciously conceiving a series of atrocious and irreparable crimes in order to make a more perfect world. He believes, for example, that 'to meet democratic specifications,' we should exterminate the Swiss republic. The reader must bear with me; I know this...