Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaughter may just turn out to be a shadow victory, however. Tom Engle, probably the team's best midfielder, broke his collar bone in the second half. Before he was injured, Engle scored three goals, and in the game against Brown he put in the winning point. The team will now have to do without his services...
According to him, there are two alternatives: slaughter and racial clash. But there is another alternative which Mr. Lerner apparently did not consider: the intervention and protection by the Federal Government, which we consider has the duty and the obligation to protect American citizens -- even in Mississippi -- who will be conducting themselves in a constitutional manner to attain rights already guaranteed to them by the same constitution...
...great divide, however, lies between such slaughter and violence as we have used the term here--the violence of the racial clash. Because the clash evokes confusion rather than compassion, it is the violence rather than the social indignity that popular opinion demands be ended. Tactically such clashes must be avoided no matter how great the pressure to retaliate becomes...
...advocates of defensive violence have been capitalizing on the rhetorical confusion of inevitable and useful violence. Taken by itself, the second section defending the utility of violence is weak, and that is why it is always argued in conjunction with violence's inevitability. In fact the two are separate. Slaughter is sadly inevitable and tactically advantageous. Violence can destroy the civil rights cause...
...become the issue. Those headed south have been declaiming at the dinner table that: "I asked myself whether my commitment was great enough to go down and fight for civil rights this summer." This is an important question, but not the crucial one. Violence is easy to risk; slaughter--even in its middle stages--is terribly hard to accept. Ask yourself if you are ready not to fight back. Not under any conceivable circumstance. Will you do anything to stop others from fighting back? Can you subdue the instinctive urge to retaliate in the interest of the cause...