Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bite on Boldly." Violence is vivid in the mysteries; Herod's soldiers slaughter three infants onstage, and even modern audiences blanch at green-faced, gloating Satan hissing among the writhing sinners before pitchforking them through the fanged jaws of Hell. Biblical characters have a buttonholing immediacy, like doddering, officious Noah, who groans...
...heinous crime of the century, they call it. What about the Hungarian slaughter, the Americans murdered over the Barents Sea and Castro's atrocities...
Dayal's U.N. headquarters in fact seemed more concerned with the "menace" of Belgians than with the barbaric slaughter. After the first wave of violence last July, the Congo's Belgian population dropped from 80,000 to 20,000, but slowly rose back to its present 40,000 as farmers, shopkeepers, technicians and barbers returned to their Congolese homes. Most are perfectly harmless-and highly useful - private citizens owning private property and pursuing private lives. Under any rule of international law, there is no more reason for them to be forced to "get out" because the Congolese have...
Shelter or Slaughter. Actually, for every Hindu tradition that forbids cow slaughter, progressive Hindus can find another that permits it. But butchering is banned outright in eight Indian states and restricted to very old animals in most others. Recently the Supreme Court ruled that state laws fixing the slaughtering age for cows at 25 years were unreasonable and suggested that 15 was old enough. According to one Delhi official's bitter estimate, the 10% of India's cows that are old, economically useless and fit only for the rest home program devour the output of 40 million...
...dogmestic bliss, produce a litter of 15 purebred Dalmatian pups. Fate, the hound, decrees that all their troubles shall not be little ones. The pups are promptly dognaped by a couple of unmitigated curs in the employ of Cruella de Vil, a wicked wealthy witch who intends to slaughter the dogs, strip off their pelts and make herself a beautiful Dalmatian coat...