Word: slaughtered
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...ordinary fight would have been stopped by the referee in the eleventh, but Jake, truculently determined not to be counted out, had warned the referee beforehand not to intervene. At 2:04 of the 13th, as Robinson was beginning to show an obvious distaste for the one-sided slaughter, the referee stopped the fight. The finish found a pulp-faced vacant-eyed Jake LaMotta backed to the ropes and holding on-but still on his feet...
After this battle, the total MIG score for the U.S. was 20 destroyed, ten probably destroyed, 32 damaged. The Air Forces announced that five U.S. jets had been lost since Nov. 1. Said Captain William Slaughter: "Let's admit it-the MIG is all right. It's a damned fine airplane. The F-84 is all right, too.* But if we were flying the MIG and they were flying the 84, I think we would be murdering them...
...Washington Times-Herald, 29-year-old Editor Ruth Miller has faithfully echoed her Uncle Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune blasts against the "slaughter" in Korea. Last week "Bazy" Miller fired a broadside all her own. Across two columns of Page One, she spread a letter from an anonymous "soldier-husband" to his wife that told a chilling story of the "horror that was the Hungnam evacuation-the American Dunkirk...
...military executioners shot men, women and children. Some people said that more than 700 civilians had already fallen before the guns of the R.O.K. troops. Others said the total was at least 800. Last week in Seoul, while U.S. and British troops voiced their loathing of the wholesale slaughter, three American clergymen-a Methodist and two Roman Catholics-made a formal protest...
Just why birdshot is being used to slaughter cattle is still a mystery. Buckshot would probably be much more efficient and much less expensive. However, no one would question the Administration's right to a few secrets...