Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale meet might have been a close one, but when injuries kept shot putter Bob Greenlee and sprinter Mark Young away, and Henry Cole pulled a muscle in the 440, the Elis lost any chance of keeping the score respectable. It wound up at 119-35, the most humiliating slaughter in the meet's 75-year history, and the third year in a row that Harvard has run up 100 or more points on Yale...
...LANCE SLAUGHTER...
...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder-in this case the slaughter of a farm family in Kansas-is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless...
Whether or not Nasution's ouster sticks, it will be some time before Su karno again feels free to court the Chinese-backed Partai Kommunis Indonesia as ardently as he did before the October coup. In the first place, P.K.I. ranks have been severely depleted by anti-Communist slaughter, and surviving party members are lying low. Secondly, Sukarno knows that a return to the pro-Communist past would trigger an army coup, Nasution or no Nasution. Indonesia has accepted the decline of Communism to such an extent that even Sukarno's beloved acronym Nasakom (a combination of nationalism...
...this spare but sturdy tale, young (22) First-Novelist Cecelia Holland cuts away the familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...