Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are even some perversely approving things to be said for slavery: that in its earliest form, it actually marked a humanitarian improvement in the laws of war, since it involved the capture of prisoners instead of their slaughter. Oddly, it was not a primitive practice, in one sense, because it required a stable and settled society in order to take root...
...violence, the fear that her own writings had contributed to the bloodiness of the uprisings and the slaughter of many young radicals disillusioned Sand, causing her to retreat to her old country home and withdraw from politics to write peacefully until her death in 1876. Horrified by the violence, she opposed the revolutionary uprisings and the rule of the 1871 Commune. But she retained the belief that socialism would occur gradually at a point distantly in the future, writing, "I am, as always socially red...but one must never impose one's convictions by force...
After downing the favored Bonnies 59-55 in the final, leading scorer Frank Sowinski was named the tourney MVP. Bob Slaughter, averaging 12.9 a game and 6 ft. 8 in. Bob Roma were also tapped for the all-tournament team...
...press set up the debate for Carter to slaughter Ford, and that's they way they reported it," he said...
...Seltzer the Players have found a director who knows what to do with all that talent. Seltzer's version of Pirates boasts plenty of directorial business: There are the banners proclaiming "Death and Slaughter" and "Glory and the Grave," unfurled as the policemen prepare to combat the pirates; the purposeful delay in starting Major General Stanley's famous patter song ("I am the very model of a modern Major General"); the instantaneous characterization of the last policeman as a bumbler out of step with the rest. But more impressive is Seltzer's general handling of the cast--not only...