Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neat-stepping donkeys burdened with panniers. Beneath the leafy shade of the Forum and along the Rue Michelet in the European district stroll some of the loveliest girls in the world, giggling and gossiping as if they were not a step away from a daily round of slaughter...
...were wiped out by Iberian diseases and the abuses of slavery. The Spaniards imported African slaves and raised sugar cane-thus drawing the covetous attention of France, which in 1665 took over the western end of the island. In 1791 the slaves rose up and began the 13-year slaughter of whites and mulattoes that brought Toussaint L'Ouverture to power and established a Haitian tradition of brutal tyranny. The Dominicans got their independence from the Spanish...
...point, Eichmann's nerves melted. His face twitched; his tongue flicked his lips and his complexion became sickly pale. But his voice was firm when he made his final statement. "I am not the monster I am made out to be," he said. "This mass slaughter is solely the responsibility of political leaders. My guilt lies in my obedience, my respect for discipline, my allegiance to the colors and the service." He would ask the Jews for pardon, said Eichmann, except that, in view of the verdict, "this would be construed as hypocrisy . . . I must carry the burden imposed...
...offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." In fact, Washington was exhorting his ragged men not to mutiny against the Government in disgust because they had not been paid...
Nightmares Relived. Other revelations about other nogoodniks: former Premier Georgy Malenkov had staged the whole sale slaughter of loyal party members in Armenia and Byelorussia; ex-Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who personally hand-picked Khrushchev from obscurity for his first major job in the '305 as secretary of the Moscow party committee, was assailed as a cruel assassin who had once rejected an old comrade's appeal by scrawling across it: "Only one punishment-death...