Word: slaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short when funds intended for the British governor never reached Boston, and Hicks, more patriot than larcenist, was arraigned for alleged irregularities. Records of the trial have never been found, but the story has a logical and revealing conclusion in 1775, when Hicks, along with two comrades, were slain by the advancing redcoats in the April fighting that ignited the colonies...
...national flower of Bolivia is the kantuta, bell-shaped and scarlet. The Incas said the flower first blossomed from the blood dropped by a Virgin of the Sun God, beloved by a prince and slain by the trick of a jealous witch. Spring came cold and dark to lofty Bolivia, but nobody recalled more beautiful kantutas. It was, Bolivians said, as if all the blood shed this year were reappearing as flowers...
...light. Each year that history looked more intricate, more ancient. It had not been an almost empty continent, with a few barbaric states, that the White Man's conquering guns and gods and diseases had invaded. The invaders had ended a succession of subtle, fantastic civilizations, and slain others just beginning to flower...
...dictator, but he was their dictator. . . . They were the Praetorian Guard, and while they were under Caesar's orders, Caesar was always in their hands. ... If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say . . . there are no slain. . . ." In his opening speech eight weary months ago, Jackson had boldly raised the question of the trial's moral and legal basis. He avoided that overriding issue in his closing speech. The omission was not widely noted. The world public would be content to see the Nürnberg...
...Part II events move downward, and the drama becomes muffled and intermittent. Hotspur lies slain by Hal; the rebels are betrayed and broken; guilt-laden Henry, who had usurped Richard II's crown, sickens and dies; Falstaff roisters now without his Prince, "Who-when he becomes his King-brutally dismisses him. Only for Hal does glory lie ahead...