Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraging pressure groups to bully the government. When the goldsmiths took to the streets last August to protest against government control of the gold content in jewelry, Indira caved in and relaxed official supervision. Similarly, last week she gave in to the demands of a Hindu sect that cow slaughter be banned by announcing that the government intends to proscribe the killing of cows in those areas of India directly administered by the federal government...
Grain shortages have increased the price of flour; consequently, bread prices have risen 7.5% since January. The steep price of feed grains for livestock has also contributed to an appreciable increase in meat prices. At the same time, ranchers have stepped up their slaughter of dairy cattle-to reduce feed expenses, take advantage of high meat prices-with the result that milk prices are up 7.9% this year...
Asian Democracy. Last week, 65 years after the slaughter on Samar, Filipinos and Americans were the staunchest of Asian allies. Descendants of the bolomen?1,200 soldiers from the Philippine Civic Action Group?were setting up camp beside U.S. troops in the South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over...
...insists that 'they get more than a square shake." The meaning is clear: crimes involving only Negroes are simply not regarded as serious by law enforcement officials. One top prosecuting attorney has remarked, for example, that a Negro who kills another Negro is generally charged with man-slaughter, while a white man who kills another white under similar circumstances is usually tried for murder...
Practically everybody on the Jets had a hand in the slaughter. Outweighed by 70 Ibs., Guard Sam DeLuca neutralized Houston's 315-lb. Defensive Tackle Ernie Ladd so effectively that Ladd spent the entire fourth quarter on the bench. Cornerback Johnny Sample picked off two Oiler passes; Middle Linebacker Al Atkinson contributed nine tackles. And Namath, untouched by Houston hands behind a ring of "fantastic" blockers, picked the Oilers' secondary to shreds...