Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no letup. The President kept his eye on the calendar, and the date of his reckoning with his sworn political foe, Congressman Roger Slaughter, up for renomination in the Missouri primary this week. But there was a mountain of work to move before Politician Truman could go off electioneering...
That vote could not directly affect Roger Slaughter. He was not running from Harry Truman's district. But with it would go all the prestige of the presidential office. In a single, considered statement ("If he's right, I'm wrong") the President had repudiated Congressman Slaughter, had thrown the whole weight of his personal and political backing behind Candidate Enos Axtell. A rebuff for the President in his own state would be a bruising setback...
...primary, political wiseacres were still trying to size up the President's gamble. Congressman Roger Slaughter still had most of the chips. But in Kansas City a pair of bookies and self-styled election experts named Gold Tooth Maxie and Cozy Dolan put their heads together, issued the track odds: even money, take your pick...
...Moslem-Hindu riots: The army ought "only to be used for maintaining cleanliness, cultivating unused land and the like," the police "only to catch bona fide thieves." The most effective way to stop religious fights, he suggested, "is that one of the parties to mutual slaughter should desist...
...tsetse, carrier of dreaded, parasitic African sleeping sickness, which kills men and cattle alike, has for generations been Africa's great curse. The parasite comes mostly from wild animals. Despite all the South African Government's efforts, including the slaughter of more than 65,000 jungle animals in the last four years, the tsetse has been gaining...