Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...afternoon, the outcome was never in doubt. The CRIMSON infield was absolutely tight, and Lampy's punch was of no avail. The barrage of hits from CRIMSON bats gave the funny men no chance to retire; candidates were rushed in to fill breeches in the crumpled line, but the slaughter went on, and at nightfall the Lampoon outfield was still digging itself in. Finally, at 7 o'clock, Captain Bacon threw up the sponge and died, while the Plympton Street heroes left the field carried on the shoulders of two muckers who constituted the crowd. The Lampoon funeral will take...
...more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians following their advances into East Prussia and Galicia...
...when we know that men in this simple way are learning to save themselves, in so far as they may, from terrible slaughter in battles, and learning that they may teach others to be saved, the game takes on a new meaning. It is not a boys' game played by boys with wooden rifles and paper hats who simulate the excitement of war. It is a man's game, and learning to play it may be worth in time our own poor lives, and the greater success of our cause...
...Turks on finding it somewhat difficult to persuade those friends with whom they had taken refuge to give them up to be shot as deserters, a general massacre was ordered. The "Butcher Regiment," made up of former criminals, was ordered by the governor-general to begin the slaughter of the innocent Armenian women and children. The Armenians were murdered by the thousand, 55,000 were killed in one day. The rivers were blocked by the bodies and were turned from their regular courses...
...increased trade or for the slaughter of little governments or for the conquest of lands beyond the seas. Our desires are clean of the thought of gain. The hope of a peace based upon national tolerance has led us to take up arms against that government which wills no peace and comprehends no tolerance. Is there now one statesman so unwise as to say we lack ideals, that our only thought is of gain while the whole world bleeds...