Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asylum. After 20 years she comes out on probation to join Daughter Diane Baker, who has been raised on a ranch by an aunt and uncle. Diane takes Lucy out to see where they "butcher the chickens," then shows off the pigs. "We fatten them up for the slaughter." Oh oh, slip of the tongue. Sorry. Lucy looks away. Pretty soon, by golly, a person can't carve a roast for dinner without precipitating a household crisis. Someone scissors through the family album, decapitating old snapshots. Then Lucy gets a black wig, a flowered silk dress, and three pounds...
...ominous is the death toll, which has jumped from 7,166 in 1953 to 10,103 in 1962, with 229,485 injured. If U.S. motorists killed at a similar rate, U.S. traffic deaths would amount to 120,000 a year instead of the actual 42,600 annually. The road slaughter is not completely the fault of inadequate highways, but often results from French élan. It is common in France to speed up as soon as you discover that the car behind you is trying to pass. The unofficial code of the chevalier de la route then requires that...
that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon gainst self-slaughter...
Practically Pygmies. U.C.L.A. was not even rated among the nation's top 20 teams in preseason polls. The biggest man on the squad, 6-ft. 5-in. Center Fred Slaughter, is practically a pygmy by today's stratospheric standards. The club's surest shooter (22 points per game), Guard Gail Goodrich, has to stand on tiptoe to prove that he is really 6 ft. 1 in. like the program says. The closest thing U.C.L.A. has to a legitimate All-America candidate is 6-ft. 2-in. Guard Walt Hazzard, who averages 18 points a game, thrills fans...
...Meanwhile, since supermarkets buy out of Chicago and a few large centers, Armour has steadily closed down a quarter of the distributing plants that it once needed across the U.S. to serve 250,000 corner groceries. With farmers finding increasingly better ways to raise meat animals, Armour now can slaughter all year instead of just in the winter rush...