Word: slaughtered
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...FORMATION of Poland's independent trade unions poses the single most serious threat to the Soviet Union since the East Bloc was created after World War II. And there can be no doubt that the Soviets will soon seek to reassert their authority by the inhumane, bloody slaughter of Polish workers...
...Though Keneally depicts many of the war's most studied battles, he resists the temptaion to offer an overview. He plants characters in the battle of Antietam, where America lost as many men in one day as it did during its whole engagement in Vietnam, but he describes the slaughter only from the perspectives of individual soldiers. While the authors of other recent, successful war novels, such as Shogun, Trinity, and War and Remembrance, use the biography of a central character to hold readers, Keneally explores the Confederate experience with several sharply focused and intertwined vignettes...
...along, but with extreme distaste. The reason: Democratic Kampuchea is the outgrowth of Pol Pot's four-year reign of terror, in which as many as 3 mil lion Cambodians are believed to have been murdered or starved to death before the Vietnamese moved in to stop the slaughter...
...cutting and assorted acts of bloody roughhouse. It also features three Celts bounding around the vast stage of the Olivier Theater in nothing but their birthday suits and some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter of two of the Celts by a squad of Roman invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler, to send down telegraphic thunderbolts about the renewal of the National's subsidy. Censor-without-Portfolio Mary Whitehouse read...
...more than a hundred years. He won but six states, and they were little ones. Working class Americans deserted him, Catholics, Jews and liberals too. And then there was George McGovern, a Senator for two decades and once a presidential candidate who stood firmly opposed to the slaughter of Vietnam, who put forward a much-ridiculed plan to guarantee a small income for all Americans. McGovern was beaten badly by Jim Abdnor, for whom "slaughter" means instead federally funded abortion, who promised to cut taxes instead of supporting those "too lazy to work." With Carter and McGovern went Frank Church...