Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler, with soldierly simplicity, accepted the good wishes of his good friends, stared for a moment at the maps of slaughter spread out on the car's table, asked for the latest military reports, and retired to peruse them. They were almost universally favorable to his cause...
...mourning dove has been commoner than the robin in some parts of the U. S. But it is quickly going the way of its late great cousin, the passenger pigeon. Southerners slaughter the birds by the thousands. Stricter hunting laws to protect this vanishing game bird are imminent...
...little (87-page) book by a critic whom people are beginning to read more & more, about a poet whom people have been reading less & less. Had Milton known that Logan Pearsall Smith would one day defend him, he would probably have cried again: "Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints." A defense by the dilettante author of Trivia, More Trivia and All Trivia could seem scarcely less incongruous to the author of Paradise Lost than the Restoration...
...HOOK OR CROOK-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). Good, conventional English slaughter in Devon, where old tin mines look like the money motive and Bunter's Pond the mortuary. Detective: the gentlemanly Philip Tolefree...
...congratulations to TIME for its splendid, superb "Slaughter on Fifth Avenue" (Jan. 27). Thoroughly complete, delicately descriptive of a terrible tragedy, "tops" in word phrasing, it is a perfect portrayal of a singular sorrow in a warped world...