Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good. When the slaughter finally ended, outclassed Abilene Christian could take some comfort in the fact that it might have been worse. Memphis State's No. 1 quarterback, James Earl Wright, 22, key man in the Tigers' wide-open attack and the most dangerous back in the South, had been given an afternoon off. A sturdy six-footer, Wright is the ideal split-T quarterback. He runs the bread-and-butter option play with swift precision, can throw a pass accurately while on the dead run to either his left or his right. Says Coach Frank Camp, whose...
...self-contained communities, like those once organized for defense against Communist attacks. In one settlement in Bilut Valley, 483 Malay, Chinese and Indian families, most of whom have never farmed before, are living peacefully together, even though the Chinese breed pigs, which the Malays abhor, and the Malays slaughter cattle, which are sacred to the Indians. In two years the settlement has put 5,770 acres under cultivation, hopes to expand to 13,000. But often it takes seven years before a rubber tree yields rubber, so Bilut Valley will have seven lean years of waiting. But hopefully, the valley...
...Snake Slaughter. Though nostrums and quack cures have always been around, they got their big boost in the U.S., says Carson, from the Civil War. The men under arms learned to seek relief in an assortment of pain-killing potions, most of which contained opiates, alcohol or both. Such strong ingredients could kill pain, and that touch of veracity built credibility for a thousand other claims...
...external use against muscle aches and the "rheumatiz," there were liniments galore. Merchant's Gargling Oil, not to be gargled, was one. Like Pratt's Healing Ointment, it was "for Man and Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...
...Israelis also pondered the closing words of Eichmann's lawyer, Dr. Robert Servatius, who warned that such barbarism as the Nazis' slaughter of the Jews had happened often in the past, "and it will happen again." Replied one of the judges: "I trust you are being overpessimistic...