Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government went decisively to war (TIME, March 3). President Miguel Aleman named himself head of the Anti-Aftosa Committee. Army, Navy and Agriculture departments, working with U.S. Department of Agriculture experts (the U.S. appropriated $9,000,000 to help Mexico in the fight), quarantined infected areas. Then the slaughter began, widening out into new areas as infection spread...
...occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight oxen in his honor. "Bring on your enemies," yelled hundreds of Transkei herders in Umtata a few days later, "and we will slaughter them...
...have foot & mouth disease. But the bulls did carry the dread disease, and Mexican herds in four central states and the Federal District were infected. Last week, energetic President Aleman set in motion a $40 million, three-month campaign to smash the epidemic. Emergency squads prepared to slaughter and cremate as many as a million head of cattle-one-tenth of Mexico's herds...
Coach Bill Barclay's Varsity five pays its last pre-Christmas visit to the Indoor Athletic Building tonight in a game with Boston University that shapes up as a far closer contest than Tuesday night's Tufts slaughter. Tap-off time is 8:45 o'clock...
...Eddie Finn, 165 lb. sling-shot passer has been so effective. Finn has a painful back injury, received just before the Yale game, that will probably keep him out of the lineup this week as well. Hank Pilote, Finn's understudy showed up well in last week's Yale slaughter, but was injured and may see only limited action...