Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Science defends itself. Like the New York Daily News's Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor, thoughtful folk often brood on science's responsibility for the ruin and slaughter of technological warfare. Blame cannot be fixed. As Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan has pointed out, "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same." Like Tartaglia, who founded the science of ballistics in the 16th Century, scientists in Britain and the U.S. may sometime feel their work on instruments of death to be "a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and man." But Tartaglia consoled himself with...
...action. By the admission of the Germans' modest and honest communiques, British-Anzac resistance at the pass held up the Nazi advance-which did not succeed in taking the heights by assault-for many hours: hours enough to turn the evacuation of the main British force from a slaughter to an almost orderly retirement...
...campaign were over. At some points Adolf Hitler's infantry troops had attacked in oldfashioned, 1918-style, suicidal mass, but at a price. According to Greek accounts "Adolf Hitler's Own" SS (Elite Guard), magnificent hand-picked lads of 19 and 20, bore the brunt of the slaughter...
...Olympic passes: "We sank one boat after another. After two hours the river was teeming with half-sunken boats drifting downstream, and with splashing, drowning men. Some of the boats were littered with dead and wounded men. We got sick of killing them. It was mass slaughter." Parachutists in grey shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared to be in danger until my captain drew a bead on the leader in short pants with an anti-tank machine gun. The German was a six-footer...
...Western commerce. In every Chinese change of the past generation-with the exception of the 1926-27 revolution-the share of the missionaries has been large. They led the movements for famine relief and Western agricultural methods, led in the attacks on opium, foot-binding, daughter slaughter, concubinage...