Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make their security more secure, by holding Montezuma hostage, leads to their ruin. When Cortes goes back to Cempoala, to fight off some Spaniards sent after him by Governor Velasquez, Alvarado, left in charge at Mexico City, gets into trouble with the natives. When Cortes returns, Montezuma is slain by his own people who, hornet-mad, drive the conquistadors from their paradise. The following spring the vengeful conquistadors raze the city, build a Spanish town, with streets squared "and the church conspicuous." Spanish settlers follow with their goats, babies, greasy pots. Old Eagle Bernal sickens to remember...
...Valtelline or Champaigne thrashed his first brush across a canvass an equally famous man cast his shadow on the history of England. Becket was a soldier who became the greatest archbishop of his time and faced the boldest king that England knew. And for all this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson shaped this solid Anglo-Saxon in the mould...
...leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had shouted ran off for a club while Prisoner Bhopatkar was left alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed him with its jeweled eyes, he sat crosslegged, giving back stare for stare. For ten minutes neither moved a muscle. Then the warden returned, clubbed the cobra...
...Slain Microphone. For Dr. Robert Pierce ("Bob") Shuler, famed Los Angeles preacher, The Christian Century has no love, but it urges that he. too, has a right to be heard...
...imperialistic Germany well realized that the rest of Europe had scooped her in collecting vast colonies throughout Africa and Asia. Therefore when two missionaries were providentially slain in Shantung, Germany demanded, and got, for reparation: a 99-year lease on the port of Tsingtao, and many miles of surrounding territory plus the right to build a railroad through Shantung Province. In 1914, Japan's first act as one of the Allies was to besiege Tsingtao. It was defended with extreme gallantry by the German garrison, for the Kaiser had bombastically called it "the jewel of my heart." Japan held...