Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horse lovers mobilized to halt the slaughter. "But it will be hard," said one M.P. pressing for Parliament control of the market, "to make Strachey [Minister of Food] do anything to limit this revolting business. After all, a horse steak fills the void...
...buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to put his seal of approval on vaccination by putting his cattle through the process first. Next move was to persuade the parish priest to give a little sermon. Sample: "God has brought a terrible scourge upon us sinners. But God is merciful. He has also brought the anti-aftosa commission...
...slaughter was too much for Cleland N. Feast, director of Colorado's Game & Fish Department. Last week, he sat down to write a new set of hunting laws for the next session of the state legislature. They would call for mandatory prosecution for manslaughter of any hunter who kills another, stiff penalties for those guilty of careless or drunken hunting. Besides this year's high toll, Feast had another good reason: three years ago his 19-year-old son lost an eye in a field accident. Said Feast: "He was hunting with an expert, yet [the expert...
Long-Eared Artists. With affectionate meticulousness, Dr. Wolff retells the island's ancient legends. Most of them, characteristically, have to do with slaughter and gluttonous cannibalism...
...freshman football team joined in Saturday afternoon's slaughter of the Brown bear by staging a late fourth period rally which toppled the Bruin yearlings 20 to 12, in the mud of Soldiers Field...