Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first race set the pattern for the rest of the slaughter. A Crimson 200-yard medley relay team of Wurster, Hammond, French, and Buster left the Huntington quartet in its wake to win in 2:53.3. Then John Quinn ran away with the 200-yd. freestyle in 1:58.3, and John Rich, in his first year of competitive swimming, had little trouble taking the 50-yd. free...
...official murderer discharged his arquebus at Coligny, the Protestant leader bent to adjust a shoe. Admiral Coligny was merely wounded. Later one autumn afternoon, Catherine gathered her closest counselors in the Tuileries Gardens. With the Protestants aroused and Coligny still dangerous, she abruptly decided that the solution was a slaughter of the most important Protestant leaders...
...deed was too large for Machiavellian neatness. In a matter of hours, slaughter became general. The populace killed more than the soldiers; shop owners got rid of commercial rivals; children slaughtered children. For five days, as a popular song of the time was to put it, "Men's bodies, women's bodies, were hurled in the terrible fury down into the river, to carry the news as far as Rouen with never a boat.'' From a window in the Louvre, King Charles avidly took target practice at bodies floating past in the Seine...
Essentially, this foursome does not slaughter sacred cows but slyly milks them for irreverent merriment. The irreverence extends to God, Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, nuclear defense, bombs A-through-H. international relations, race relations, the Battle of Britain, the royal family, hale and hollow clergymen, logical positivism, concert singers and pianists, capital punishment, and buyers of pornographic books. British dithering and deadpanning account for as many laughs in these skits as the lines themselves, but plenty of verbal darts...
...death of robins, which form a large part of suburban bird populations. The robins live on earthworms (that is why they are plentiful in the suburbs, where worm-bearing lawns abound), which concentrate insecticides without being damaged themselves. When the robins eat these insecticide-full worms, they die. The slaughter may continue for several years, until the DDT in the soil has disintegrated...