Word: slaughtered
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Physicist Seitz knows that some of his colleagues hate to develop new means of mass slaughter. They distrust military men, cringe at the thought of exposing themselves to spy hunts. But Dr. Seitz is convinced that they must. Otherwise, they will endanger "the most important ideals which have been evolved by mankind since the dawn of civilization . . . Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western culture was being overwhelmed...
...loans for seed grains, sent soldiers to work in the fields. Government workers and soldiers were exhorted: "Save an Ounce of Rice." Tung claimed that the "head" of the famine had been dealt with, but admitted that the job had been botched in places. Refugees had been permitted to slaughter or sell irreplaceable work animals. "Bureaucracy," said Tung, "is still strong...
Babcock has made this tour for 19 years and never seen the likes of this slaughter. The guilty hawk, he says, shuttles regularly between the Mom Hall and Memorial Church towers at feeding time, looking for his meal...
...story of the Great Ghetto of Warsaw under the Nazis there lies enough pathos to sate any man. The systematic slaughter of almost half a million Jews in one year; the fantastic desperation which made less than a thousand ill-armed, undernourished Jews stand up against three times their number of German troops with tanks and flamethrowers in the last days of the extermination-these contain emotion enough to sicken the reader of a novel...
This state of affairs has come about because a cow in Ruanda is like a Cadillac in the U.S.-a mark of social distinction. The natives almost never sell or slaughter their cows, in time of famine prefer to die of starvation beside their impassive bovines. Each animal has its own name and every Ruandan dreams of at least two cows in his pasture. The cows are now increasing at the rate of 120,000 a year. They tie up the best land, hamper the natives in raising food crops. "Except the king,"*runs a popular saying, "nothing ranks above...