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Word: slaughtered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to national speeches 'and articles in which Grew has stressed the endurance and fanaticism of Japan, the ex-ambassador last fall wrote an article for the CRIMSON warning college students that they were marked college students that they were marked for slaughter by the Axis in the eventuality of a defeat of the United Nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Will Honor Grew With Howland Award | 2/25/1943 | See Source »

...greatest handicap of the Japanese is their lack of imagination. They carry out orders to the letter and, if necessary, to death. But when things go wrong, they cannot adapt their tactics. If Jap attackers meet resistance, they advance anyhow-which accounts for the terrible slaughter to which Japanese troops submit themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...World War I he rose from a second lieutenant at 18 to a major at 21. He received the Military Cross, one of the Army's highest awards for gallantry. Winston Churchill called him "the one fresh figure of magnitude" which survived and arose out of the slaughter of Britain's finest young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Harmonies & Discords | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Cleveland Press Reporter Clayton Fritchey scouted the countryside, came back with grisly pictures of carcasses in rat-ridden, blood-stained slaughter barns (see cut), a shocking story of racketeers who had already sidetracked 40% of the city's meat supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Steer Hangs High | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...hard facts: 1) last fall's slaughter of cows and sows makes it nonsense to "talk of furnishing meats and fat supplies" to 300 million additional starving people after the war; 2) Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard's "admirable victory program of increased herds and production" announced a year ago was not fully met; 3) some two million men have been drained from the farm labor supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Hard Facts | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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