Word: slaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullfighter with drawn sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus the bullfighter has slain a human victim. This is Koerner's way of saying that the bullfight is really a surrogate for a much more primitive sacrifice. The woman in white is both a modern Pittsburgh housewife and the old cannibal mother goddess of the ancient Mediterranean. The amazing thing about this painting...
...Next Victims. Though the Justice Department's case, in effect, sought to show that the defendants conspired to kill the civil rights workers, the official charge against them was the relatively minor crime of conspiracy to deprive the slain men of their constitutional rights. Only the state could have brought a murder charge, and it has failed to do so. Nonetheless, if the defendants thought they would get any extra legal break from Judge Cox, a native Mississippian, they soon learned better. While Cox presided firmly and fairly, the prosecution played its trump cards: two paid FBI informers, both...
...death of the very last group of Masada's defenders?" The answer, he feels, is suggested by Josephus' description of the last moments of Masada: They then chose ten men by lot out of them, to slay all the rest . . . and when these ten had, without fear, slain them all, they made the same rule for casting lots for themselves, that he whose lot it was should first kill the other nine, and after all, should kill himself...
...still through the agony of two attacks and thus saved himself. Bitten on the shoulder, legs and buttocks, he heard the girl being dragged away, screaming so loudly that other campers at the chalet heard her anguished cries. After the survivors told their horrifying tales, two grizzlies were quickly slain before the evident killers -with human blood on their fur and flesh in their claws-were found and dispatched...
...county delegate of Schuylkill County, at no time did I ever come across any incident of violence attributable to the Molly McGuires where they were known to have assassinated a fellow worker or boss to gain better pay and working conditions per se. Rather, the individuals who were slain had the misfortune at the time to be of Dutch, Welsh, and/or English descent and fell prey to personal prejudices and animosities...