Word: slain
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...sands of North Africa, burning Moslem nationalism collided head-on with determined French colonialism. The tribesmen of Morocco slew hundreds and were slain by the hundreds in return; neither side troubled unduly to spare the innocent. The occasion for the bloodshed was local in nature but worldwide in its implications: Who should be Sultan of Morocco-a French puppet or the man the Moroccans themselves wanted as their Imam (Commander of the Faithful)? Deeper than this ran stronger currents: France's pride of empire, the Moroccans' longing for independence. In this confused situation, the nation that brought modern...
...Casey at the Bat" [TIME, Nov. 15]: Being an Irishman, or partly one, I find it slightly painful [that] Sean O'Casey . . . respects a political organization which has slain and tortured uncounted millions all over their world-with their "inexhaustible energy, the irresistible enthusiasm of their Socialist efforts" . . . O'Casey may be a "roguish wordmonger," but so was Goebbels and Pravda ... He is entertaining, but he is also bitter . . . There is too much of his "failing desires" to make him palatable to anyone who knows there...
Then, in August 1952, three camping Britons-famed Food Expert Sir Jack Drummond. his wife and his ten-year-old daughter Elizabeth-were found brutally slain on the Dominici farm. The murder became a cause célébre (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952). Biochemist Sir Jack was renowned for his part in setting the nutritional minimums for Britain's wartime rations; the failure to find his killer was an international humiliation for the French police. After long and confused police investigations, Gaston Dominici was carted off to prison. Last week the mahogany-faced old peasant, now 77, stood...
...found it hard to get material, since "a pitiful, unreasoning fear . . . came to so many faces, both white and colored, when I mentioned the case." In the current issue of the Negro monthly Ebony, Huie openly charged that Circuit Judge Hal W. Adams (no kin to the slain doctor) has "the racial attitudes of Reconstruction." Furthermore, said Huie, Adams had been an honorary pallbearer at the doctor's funeral...
...Hitler's East Prussian field headquarters on July 20, 1944 killed four men around him, but left a barely injured Hitler alive to take a terrible revenge. He had thousands of suspects rounded up - field marshals, trade-union leaders, ambassadors, mayors, army officers, politicians. Many were jailed or slain. The eight ringleaders were tortured for days by Gestapo experts. Finally. Hitler said: "It is my wish that they be hanged like cattle." The eight were stripped, and as they shivered in the chilly dawn, their necks were encircled by short, thin string attached to meathooks in the torture chamber...