Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neighborhood. Reconstructing the scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys, tossing them through windows in frenzied bloodlust. New York law requires each county to indemnify owners of livestock killed by raiding dogs. Day after the slaughter an assessor was at Ashgrove appraising the damage. One day last week Saratoga County heard how much the turkeys had cost it-$459, at three dollars a head. Next night, despite Ashgrove's armed watchman, the dogs got in again, killed five more turkeys. No three-dollar birds were...
...Since we all speak the same language [sic] and belong to the same race, we should live and prosper together. Why should we slaughter each other...
...koshering rite. The rabbis, however, allow for "neutral," or parve foods-vegetables, grain products, fish, eggs. Neutral dishes may be prepared as meaty or milky. An illegitimate mixture of foods is tre- fah or terephah. Terephah literally means "an animal torn by wild beasts." It applies especially to the slaughter of animals, or shechitah. Shechitah. The shochet is the one who does the slaughtering. One may not be a shochet if he is a deaf-mute, idiot, minor, one who is intoxicated, an old man with trembling hands (he might press against the throat instead of having his knife...
Phillips Brooks House baseball team trounced Dunster 10-2, while the Eliot Elephants nosed out Winthrop by the slim margin of 4-3 today at Soldiers Field. Brooks' slaughter of Winthrop was featured by the inability of the latter's batters to hit, 15 of them fanning. Merry's double in the seventh scored two runs for Eliot to win that game. The Elephants now claim the lead in the House baseball race with three victories and no defeats, while Adams is second with two wins and no losses...
...good sources." London's Daily Herald, one-time organ of James Ramsay MacDonald, now of the British Labor Party, declared: "A quarter-million Nazi storm troops, including desperate characters over whom even Chancellor Hitler cannot exercise control, will, it is stated, invade the large towns of Prussia and slaughter all progressive leaders and Jews of whom, both men and women, a long list has already been prepared...