Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Must. In the 19th century, the exploitation of rubber in the interior introduced another wave of slaughter. To punish one miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white...
This recent slaughter was yet another grisly incident in a mortal struggle against cruelty and civilization that has been going on in Brazil for more than 400 years. Like the North American Indian before him, the Brazilian Indian's enemy is the white man-and the white man's ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian...
...this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing at a mere 5% annually...
Close as he came to annihilation, Scotty Slaughter has been far closer. Once he momentarily paralyzed a 17-ft. great white shark, reloaded just in time to see the man-eating monster charge, "with his mouth open like a cellar door." Slaughter flippered off to the side, slammed the powerhead home with a water-muted concussion that burst the shark's flat head...
...real horse in the water," said one awed instructor from the Navy's Key West underwater swim school. "But the percentage gets worse all the time," he added ominously. "Sooner or later, a shark is sure to get Slaughter...