Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...
Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...
...basis of Saturday's slaughter of Brown, and comparative scores against Tech--whom the Jumbos beat 54 to 46--the Crimson will probably enter the game a slight favorite. Though victorious in two of three games this season, the Jumbos have given no indication that they are on a par with the 1945 Crimson powerhouse...