Word: slaine
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...June 20 survey be sent to him while he attended a reunion at his family's Argentine ranch. Aides telephoned the report to Buenos Aires, where it was tape-recorded and driven six hours to the Dyson spread. It arrived as the executive was dining on a freshly slain and roasted heifer. Reading the document, Dyson realized that consumer anger was reaching critical levels. Says he: "You can get a wonderful perspective on some problems when you are half a world away...
...freedom of the press must be preserved. We hope that the judiciary will forbid this type of coercive restriction on press freedom, but if it does not we beseech the Justice Department not to exercise its full powers. If every undercover agent of the CIA was slain by our nation’s enemies, it would not be so grievous a blow to America as the precedent that is being set in this case. Intelligence, America can do without. We wish the CIA luck, but even where it fails disastrously America will pull through. When the press is muzzled, America?...
FAMOUS DAD: Slain U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy...
When Walter saves a young boy from a pedophile who he has observed lurking around the local school, we are almost—but not quite—satisfied that he has slain his demons, having confronted head-on that which represents everything he loathes about himself. Yet this satisfaction quickly evaporates when Walter’s bittersweet reunion with his sister ends badly, and we sense that Walter’s struggle will continue long after the film?...
...offensive has left much of Fallujah in ruins, as air strikes, artillery barrages and ground fighting destroyed homes and damaged many of the city's mosques. It's impossible to count the number of enemy slain across Fallujah, but the attrition of insurgent forces in the city was decisive. In the long run, however, the rebels haven't been beaten. From the nature of the fight and interviews with insurgents before the attack, it seems clear the nationalist and jihadist leadership had by and large already left the city along with much of their ranks, leaving behind, in classic guerrilla...