Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...character assassination on all fronts. By the next day, March 29, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover approved a second effort "to publicize hypocrisy on the part of Martin Luther King." The document whiplashed him as cowardly and violent, servile and uppity. "Like Judas leading lambs to slaughter," Hoover confidentially advised news contacts, "King led the marchers to violence, and when the violence broke out, King disappeared." A gossipy addition highlighted the place of refuge. "The fine Hotel Lorraine in Memphis is owned and patronized exclusively by Negroes," stated the propaganda sheet, but King had chosen instead "the plush Holiday...
...steps back and focuses on the sort of mundane detail that sticks in one's mind more firmly than any blood-splattered image. Describing the immolation of suspected communist sympathizers?women and children included?in an air raid shelter, he focuses with almost casual detachment on the sound of slaughter: "Suddenly a muffled, moaning sound, kind of like the 'oooh' a crowd of people might make, rose up all around us like some sort of wind?and then, all at once, we were engulfed in flame...
...Manhattan's Supper Club, Angelina Jolie--humanitarian, Oscar winner, erstwhile wearer of a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood--is scheduled to speak about Sierra Leone. It's a benefit dinner for Witness, a group that has been chronicling abuses in the war-torn African country--slaughter, rape, the drafting of child soldiers. So, naturally, a swarm of cameras are there to get her take on the big issue of the day: Isn't she, like, totally excited that Brad Pitt has decided to adopt her two kids...
...still compelled, despite your rational logic? What sort of beast am I? Henry: Beasts of burden. That’s right, draft animals, kosher hunks of meat with cloven hooves and mouthfuls of cud. Together we are herded underground, into dark, crowded bars, to await the slaughter of the opening act, dreaming of DMB popping out and doing a 50-minute jam on “Tripping Billies.”“That One Show” is so dependent on so many things, from band creativity to crowd enthusiasm right down to the smell of the venue...
...been strongly sympathetic to the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, which it has viewed as leading the resistance against American and other foreign forces. (After the bombings, Kuwaiti commentator Ahmed Rabi scolded the Jordanian media for its past "defense of the black violence in Iraq.") In justifying the slaughter, a statement from Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's Jordanian-born leader in Iraq, explained that the Amman hotels were targeted because they were "used as a garden for the Jews and Christians...as a base for infidel intelligence forces who are conspiring against Muslims...