Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waldstein's hurling and the Varsity's hitting were the highlights of the Saturday slaughter of Columbia by 11 to 1. The Junior southpaw whiffed 10 Lion butters, five of them in succession in the seventh and eigth frames. In addition, he gave only one pass and six scattered hits. Not a single enemy reached third before the final rally...
Victory was no longer the question. The opposite choice, death, would have meant the useless slaughter of civilians. And so General Percival made the hard, the humiliating choice. He went, as directed, to a Ford Motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah, a hill where, earlier that day, there had been bloody fighting. There, at 7 p.m., after some palaver, he signed away large pieces of the land, the power and the pride of the British Empire...
Then the war in Europe came, Muenter hated the slaughter, and developed a fixation that it would all end if our munitions manufacturers, like J.P. Morgan, would stop exporting to all Allies. Letters and arguments did not good, so Muenter decided on July 3, 1915 that action was necessary...
Russian dispatches reported the slaughter of "thousands" of Germans by ski troops cleaning out the Volkhovarea below Leningrad and a 15-mile Red Army advance over southern battle-fields strewn with German bodies...
...Religion's undoubted Man of the Year, the Most Rev. William Temple, the Archbishop of York. At Malvern, and recently again at another gathering of British churchmen (see p. 41), he took the lead in attempting to set up better standards for the world to follow when slaughter is done. When his work is complete-if it is as farsighted as it is good-willed-he may do more to influence the future of the world than all the leaders of state. That fulfillment, however, is yet to come...