Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs for top yields. Machinery is rationed or nonexistent. Farm wages are too high for many an operator to pay. Laborers are abandoning the seven-day-week grind of cow-tending for easier, better-paid city work. Thus big & little farmers are selling herds: the culls for slaughter, the good cows mostly to neighbors; heifers-next year's cows-are being sold for beef at fantastic prices. Results: fewer cows were milked in October than any other time since 1933; production per cow this autumn fell 1% from last fall; farmers are squeezed in a mesh of prices, wages...
...white hunters oiled their guns. In the Zulu villages the old men rolled their eyes as they chattered of the slaughter to come-whole herds of galloping zebras and wildebeests to be stalked and shot to stop nagana-native name for a form of African sleeping sickness. Harmless to game animals, nagana is deadly to domestic cattle, with a mortality rate of close to 50%. It is carried by a tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) closely related to the tsetse (G. palpalis) which infects...
Last week the South African Government ordered the slaughter of 15,000 game animals in Zululand. The hope was that no game would mean no nagana. The great Hluhluwe Reserve, last home of the white rhinoceros, will not be invaded, but in the surrounding areas the waterbuck and hartebeest, the dainty duiker and the lordly kudu*-all the smooth-haunched animals on whose bellies the tsetse feeds-will be exterminated by professional hunters under supervision of the government...
...must call upon the leaders of nations to abandon the fiendishly inspired slaughter. ... We condemn the outcome which wicked and designing men are now planning, namely: the world-wide establishment and perpetuation of some, form of communism on the one side, or some form of nazism or fascism on the other. ... We call upon the statesmen of the world to ... bring this war to an end honorable and just...
...second game, with the score tied 3-to-3 and two out in the eighth, Slaughter slammed a line drive into right field, beat the throw-in to second base, streaked to third as Shortstop Rizzuto bobbled the ball. On Musial's single, he scored what turned out to be the winning run. Then, in the ninth, his bull's-eye throw from right field to third base saved the game for the Cardinals...