Word: slaughtered
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...bunch of Eskimos, so I had to figure out a way for Nanook to lose the battle. 'Well,' I'd tell them, 'You know how much dust there is in China. Nanook's army just couldn't take it and they all got tuberculosis. It was a terrible slaughter from which the Eskimo civilization never recovered.' This satisfied most of them and when I mentioned the names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might say I was God around the hotel. I would be sweeping, you know, and some girls would...
Stengel has had phenomenal Series success over the year with such National League castoffs as Johnny Sain, Johnny Mize, Johnny Hopp, and Enos Slaughter. This time his wizardry was insufficient, however, and the Yankees might be thinking of Freddie Lindstrom, an old Giant player...
...Among other events at Gibeon mentioned in the Bible: the siege by Amorite kings which was lifted by Joshua as the sun stood still and stones rained down on the fleeing besiegers (Joshua 10); the slaughter of Amasa by Joab (II Samuel 20); Solomon's dream of wisdom (I Kings...
After Revson had chewed up a reported 18 account executives, McCann-Erickson got tired of the slaughter and parted company with him in 1948. Revlon shifted to the William Weintraub agency, where, said one adman, "Bill Weintraub knew how to handle Revson; he just outshouted him, and everything was fine." Then Weintraub's Norman B. Norman, who holds the record (seven years) for working personally with Revson, bought out Weintraub to form his own Norman, Craig & Kummel agency. But no sooner did Norman buy the rights to the $64,000 Question for Revlon than trouble began. Says Norman: "After...
...made the first forthright anti-Stalin speech. Presumably this was a maneuver planned ahead of time with Khrushchev's connivance to set the stage for the sensational speech by Khrushchev that followed. Yet such are the intricacies of Kremlin politics that the one innocent victim of Stalinist slaughter cited by Mikoyan was Ukrainian Old Bolshevik Stanislav Kosior, whose successor in Kiev, as everybody in the hall knew, was the keen young Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev...