Word: slaughtered
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...Third Game belonged to the ancient of the Yankees, Enos Slaughter, 41. The tireless outfielder, who gets his pep from a diet of blackstrap molasses and sunflower-seed oil, waited until the eleventh inning, while Whitey Ford, his sore arm suddenly healthy, held the Sox to a 1-to-1 tie. Then, Enos stepped to the plate, took an effortless swing at the first pitch and sent the ball high and far into the right center-field stands. After Hank Bauer's third-inning homer, that was all the Yankees needed to win, 2-1, and head home with...
Horse, the Sioux chief who was captured and killed in 1877, after the slaughter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand. In 1939 Crazy Horse's nephew, Henry Standing Bear, who knew that Ziolkowski had done some work on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, asked him to carve a Crazy Horse memorial. Said Standing Bear, after a long look at the faces of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore: "We want the white man to know that the Indian had heroes...
...beat them to death, and threw the bodies over the sea wall to the rocks 40 feet below. Then they lifted the Ford and dropped it over the cliff after them. Police, stoically watching this performance, brushed aside a protest by foreign newsmen that they stop the slaughter, said: "We haven't received orders." A French paratroop major who tried to intervene was slapped in the face by a uniformed Territorial private. Dazed and humiliated, the officer stumbled away, muttering: "Are these people worth saving...
...answered in kind. Doby countered with a left hook somewhat more accurate than Ditmar's fast ball, and Ditmar dropped. Men from both sides piled in. Even with the Chicago cops to help them, the umpires took 28 minutes to put down the fight. By then, Yankees Enos Slaughter and Billy Martin had been ordered off the field, along with Chicago's First Baseman Walt Dropo and Doby. (All four, plus Ditmar, later drew fines from League President Will Harridge.) The rest of the battlers dusted themselves off and readjusted blood pressures and the Yankees went...
Only 15 men had survived by playing dead. They told a harrowing story. The fellaghas had brought in the men from other nearby villages, trussed them up and flung them into the shacks. At nightfall, they began a systematic slaughter. The men were forced out of the huts one by one and shot as they emerged. When this proved too slow, the rebels simply sprayed bullets into the dark interiors. Other fellaghas fell on the survivors with knives and axes, butchering them in a frenzy of blood...