Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added up to just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading Chinese territory show utter disregard for all the rules of international law. The law of morality gives place to violence and anarchy. . . . Civilization and the security of the world is in the balance...
...young Sidney captivated royalty, diplomats, scholars; the only criticism voiced was that he drank too much water, ate too much fresh fruit. In Paris, as guest of Francis Walsingham (later head of England's unexampled secret service, and Philip's future father-in-law) Philip witnessed the slaughter of St. Bartholomew's Day, conceived for Spain and the Papacy the only ungentle attitude in his makeup...
Another source of employment for veterinarians is the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, whose men inspect meat both on the hoof and in slaughter houses. All these inspectors are graduates of recognized veterinary colleges. Last week the Chief of the Bureau, Dr. John Robbins Mohler, who is celebrating his fortieth year in the service and who is one of the biggest employers of veterinarians on earth (800), went to Omaha to boast that "the U. S. has become the safest country in the world in which to engage in breeding and raising domestic animals...
Meanwhile the only immediate result of the promiscuous slaughter in Shanghai was that Japanese diplomatic and consular offices were ordered evacuated from China's capital, Nanking. No one in Tokyo, however, would admit that this presaged a formal declaration of war, a technical gesture now outmoded because it is apt to lead to international complications and to charges that treaties have been broken...
From this point Ivan's adventures are placed against the background of the War and Revolution-a chronicle which carries Ivan luckily through the slaughter of the Russians on the Polish front, many a hazardous undertaking of the Communist Party, a turbulent love life, closes during the last days of the Russian Civil War, when Ivan made a fatal error of judgment because he forgot momentarily that "in revolution there is no place for sentiment or sorrow or heart hollowness-no place at all for love...