Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost all police stations in Athens and the Piraeus had been occupied or stormed by ELAS forces, some with the slaughter of every single inmate. Firing was widespread throughout the city. It was growing; it was approaching...
...quest the detective interviews a wonderful, boozy old floozy (Esther Howard) who could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan...
...last week's 45 to 0 slaughter of Boston College, the Raiders displayed a smashing ground attack and an almost impregnable defense. Showing a--193-pound line and an 185-pound backfield, they routed the Eagles...
...German columns which, thus caught on both flanks, were squeezed between the armor and infantry and raked by a murderous cross fire. Soon every highway, road and country lane in the area was a mass of burning, wrecked vehicles. There seldom has been such a quick mass slaughter as this. The battle of the Falaise gap was several days in the developing, but the slaughter, decimation and dispersion of 20,000 to 30,000 Germans in the Maubeuge-Mons area took place within a few hours...
...Lace (Warners) is a reasonable facsimile of the Broadway comedy about two Brooklyn spinsters who make a hobby of dosing old men with arsenic. By inverting the traditional concept of murder as a crime of passion and turning it into an ingenuous diversion for pixillated old ladies, wholesale slaughter is made an innocently delightful subject...