Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been shut down by the vicious cost squeeze that threatens to close Calabrese's Caroline Baking Co. (1973 sales, $200,000). In the past eight months, oil of anise has risen from $3 per lb. to $40. Because the high price of chickenfeed is forcing many farmers to slaughter their hens, eggs are both scarce and more expensive. Says he: "If prices keep rising like this I could go out of business in a few months." Calabrese has reduced the number of pizzelles in a package from seven to six, foregoing a price increase because "I had to raise...
Similarly in the House, political bookmakers have already drastically reduced their dire forecasts of a Republican slaughter. There are likely to be some unseated Republicans, while several strong G.O.P. Congressmen retired rather than face the voters in the midst of the Watergate imbroglio. But estimates of losses, which ran as high as 80 or 100, have been scaled back down to 20 or 30. Among those favored by Nixon's resignation are the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee who voted for impeachment-like Railsback of Illinois and Butler of Virginia. Nixon defenders like Sandman and Maraziti, both...
...Baltimore. Ripening mounds of garbage, growing ever gamier in the hot summer sun, piled up next to the city's famed row houses. Temperatures in some jail cells rose as high as 110°, broiling the unsupervised inmates. Zoo officials started a rumor that they might have to slaughter small animals in order to feed larger ones. That persuaded union members to allow food to be brought in; but no manure was taken out, and it piled up at the rate of a ton a day. Along with the rank smells assaulting their noses, Baltimoreans faced a cacophony...
...budgetconscious housewives to buy meat as freely as they once did. Prices of live hogs have dropped as much as 29% below a year ago, and cattle on the hoof are down 15%. Financially pressed feed-lot operators indeed claim that they are being forced to sell cattle for slaughter for $150 to $200 per animal less than they paid to buy and raise the same steers...
...himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action. Or he lived it some of the time. He played other roles as well, among them that of a conventional husband (he was married for twelve years and had two children...