Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Played with stormy authority by Actor Christopher Plummer, Pizarro lashes his men through an ordeal of fire, ice and fear into the serene court of Atahuallpa. They are greeted as gods, and prove the bloodiest of devils. In a slow-motion ballet of contained fury, the actors mime the slaughter of 3,000 Peruvians within an hour by 167 Spaniards...
This game is going to be a real slaughter. Brown, with a 1-4 record, has amassed a grand total of three touchdowns all year." Princeton has piled up 177 points in five games; their scoring average is exceeded only by Nebraska...
...million in McGraw-Hill stock, which sold last week at 49½ a share. McGraw-Hill plans no major changes in S. & P.'s operations. "You don't take a sound, successful business like Standard & Poor's and tamper with it," says Executive Vice President Robert Slaughter. As an institution in the financial world, S. & P. will retain its own offices in Wall Street, continue to issue its financial reports under its own name...
...only important enemy. Passenger pigeons were good to eat, fun for sport shooting, and almost entirely salable: their dried gizzards were thought to cure gallstones; their powdered stomachs were a nostrum for dysentery; and their feathers were in great demand for use as ticking. During the 1870s, when the slaughter reached its peak, hard-working hunters could net 15,000 birds in a single day-at a market value of $1,250. News of a nesting was spread by telegraph; hunters came from miles around, and the pigeons were trapped, bludgeoned or shot (a single shotgun blast once brought down...
Everyone expects this game to be a complete slaughter. Dartmouth has racked up 83 points in its first two game rushing defense. And Penn, after all, is Penn...