Word: slain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Similarly, Mrs. Anita Carroll of Issaquah, Wash., was reported slain primarily because she would have been a drag on the gang's escape...
...rebels themselves, but many Cubans blamed government executioners. The anti-Batista Ortodoxo Party condemned "those in power who want to convert Cuba into a Hungary of the Antilles." The Auténtico Party, which Batista tossed out of power in 1952, blasted "the macabre spectacle of 21 Cubans slain precisely on the day of peace and Christian love, the day of our Lord's Nativity...
...neatest dismissal of the keynote speech at the Democrat Convention was made from the pulpit by a Jacksonville minister, who said: "Mr. Clement has slain the Republican Party with the jawbone...
...cuckolded husband broke into their bedroom on the dark midnight of Oct. 16, 1590, and slew the lovers, or had them slain. Later, convinced that the second child was not his, he shook the cradle so ferociously that the infant could not catch her breath and suffocated. Thereupon Gesualdo settled into a life of remorse and debauchery-he was so beset by evil "demons" that he had himself whipped daily-out of which came some of the world's most remarkable music...
...Adventure traveled back in time to a city slain by nature rather than by man. In re-creating the terrifying last days of Pompeii, the show had the help of an excellent script-the contemporary letters of Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus-and dramatic excerpts from a pair of vintage Italian films. Sins of Pompeii and Fabiola. In somber contrast to the deluge of volcanic fire and dust that buried the city and its inhabitants, the camera strolled down the empty, cobbled streets of present-day Pompeii and glanced up at the peaceful, picturesque cone of Vesuvius...