Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloody butchers of the German working class. Now, alarmed by what the ultra-conservative New York Herald Tribune calls the "lack of enthusiasm" on the part of the German workers for the Nazi regime, they are turning in a frenzy to a new and possibly greater orgy of slaughter. They have won the gratitude of the German capitalists and munitions makers by driving down the living standards of the German workers to starvation levels, and they are attempting, though with decreasing success, to stifle the manifestations of struggle against this terror on the part of the German tolling masses...
...hair and stepped into the ring. Finally the gathering broke up and Antonio Sanchez walked home to save money. Near the central market he heard shouts and a great splintering of wood. Mad as a bullring champion was a snorting beef bull that had escaped from a slaughter house herd and was charging back & forth ankle deep in cabbages, beets, potatoes and the wreckage of vegetable stalls...
...year, against six last year, and the catch has been the best in a decade. By last week, with the hunt almost over, 190,000 sculps were piled in stinking holds. Captain Kean can remember when the fleet brought back 700,000 sculps in a good season, but yearly slaughter has dwindled the herds. Some naturalists view this destruction with alarm, but Newfoundlanders say that if they did not keep the herds down the seals would eat up all their cod, capelin and herring...
...cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation of Don Quixote, Dillinger and Napoleon, wrhose more serious misdemeanors, like robbery, arson, lechery and wholesale slaughter of prisoners, are excusable on the grounds of good intentions...
...outward appearances, the biggest thing that ever happened in Brunswick, Iowa was the daily arrival of the 6:45, which sometimes came in on time. But plenty of other excitement went on just below the surface. Drury. the town villain, was making a cuckold out of little Bolly Hootman. Slaughter Somerville, No. 1 Citizen, was in love with the deacon's wife. Station Agent Ben doggedly pursued cat-like Lulu, unaware that she was after Slaughter. When the deacon found Slaughter and his pretty wife practicing hymns together in the church and peppered them with birdshot, all these situations...