Word: slaughtered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Number five player Sheila Morrisey also participated for the Crimson and beat teammate, Liz Reynolds, a late entrant into the tournament, (3-1). In the following round of 16, Morrisey lost to Holleran, (0-3), but came back to beat Clair Slaughter of Trinity in the consolation. She then lost in the third round quaterfinals in a close match...
This round of killing is surely only a prelude to the slaughter that will follow Marcos' "re-election." As Mrs. Aquino said, "Too many will be dead the moment the world's head is turned...
United States pressure on Marcos was one hope of preventing the slaughter. But that hope is fading rapidly, under the weight of the sleepy cowboy's off-the-cuff remarks in Tuesday's news conference...
...only conceivable purpose behind all this ridiculous symbolism is to convince the audience that these terrorists are lower on the evolutionary chart than were the Nazis. They are in fact so subhuman that we aren't supposed to care when we see the Americans slaughter hundreds of Muslims later on in the film. But this doesn't explain why screenwriters James Bruner and Golan choose to inform us that one of the terrorists had a young daughter who was killed by the Israelis. Are they Nazis or victims or both? To be honest, I haven't lost too much sleep...
While reporters interviewed the surviving families, some viewers tensed-up and turned their heads away, as if witnessing animals off to the slaughter, as if impulsively averting some vicarious blow. When the families cried out, or held their heads in their hands, or put their arms around one another, or stared in mute terror, the same people who'd noticed how nervous Rather looked, how worn-out, how disgusted, how much his hands shook, the same people cursed him, and called him an S.O.B., and said that the networks were heartless, and vicious, and lacking in ethics, and wanting...