Search Details

Word: slaughtered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...says at last, and the word sets in train the strange and affecting tale of this strange and brilliant Italian film, the hilarious and horrifying parable of a Judas goat who innocently leads a lamb to the slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Judas Goat | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...undercover agents flocked to the island. Trotsky plunged into an enormous correspondence with Trotskyites, who formed devoted, quarrelsome little groups in just about every country in the West. Trotsky did his best to unite them and boost their morale. He was genuinely appalled by Stalin's mass slaughter of Russia's peasantry and said so. But he confused his followers by scrupulously refusing to call for Stalin's overthrow and by defending Stalin's incredibly Machiavellian foreign policy-even the invasion of Finland. He was always afraid of a bourgeois restoration in Russia and would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hell-Black Night | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

When the sun has set, the guardian ants come out of the burrow and climb into the bush. They inspect every twig and leaf, looking for marauders, especially the fierce, predatory ants that infest the pinewoods and would quickly slaughter the caterpillars. When Ross put spiders or beetles on the bushes, the protecting ants found them at once and quickly dragged them away. About 7:30 p.m., the caterpillar is let out of its burrow. Shepherded by the carpenter ants, it climbs to the topmost leaves of the bush and starts feeding greedily. The ants climb aboard and drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entomology: Animal Husbandry in The Animal Kingdom | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...what will probably be the dullest game of the day, Columbia will slaughter Penn. Although the Lions may still be recovering from a severe attack by Dartmouth, Penn was ineffectual against Yale and has shown a pronounced weakness in its pass defense system. The only reason Harvard did not win was the Crimson's inability to hold its own passes. Penn really did not interfere very much with this part of the Harvard game...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Eight Ivy Elevens Face Each Other; Princeton Hosts Yale in Key Contest | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...Dirt roads and sagging, patched, unpainted shacks. The inevitable railroad tracks. On summer mornings, cotton trucks rolling through the streets in search of pickers. Blood stench in the air on slaughter day at the meatpacking plant. A 29-year-old grandmother drunk--clinging to a tree. Children...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

Previous | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | Next