Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donnell's elder brother Cleo suffered a broken rib in the second game of the season--a 49-0 slaughter of Tufts and had to sit out Princeton and Coast Guard contests before returning to lead a victory over Holy Cross three weeks later...
...Washington is chiefly the story of George's effort to fight a nightmarish war against able enemies, with insufficient men and supplies. Freeman's accounts of Washington's volunteer trip to warn the French away from the Ohio, the disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity and the slaughter of Braddock's army are easily the soundest and most complete in print...
...regards Dr. Perl's [being] "sentimental and well-meaning," and Dr. Deutschman's condemnation of her "wholesale slaughter of infants," I cannot but wonder about Dr. Deutschman's pretentiousness in passing judgment on the doctor's morals . . . Presumably, it would have been a happier choice to put the mothers to death before the children were born, [or] should the camp authorities consent to exceptions ... to raise children with the prospects of starvation, medical experimentation, permanent physical and mental mutilation...
...that Dr. Perl's end justified her means. Protestants and Jews have varying views on different kinds of abortion; Roman Catholics say flatly that any abortion is mortal sin. One physician, New York's Dr. David Deutschman, observed: "There is no rational or moral justification for . . . wholesale slaughter of infants . . . whether it be done by the brutal Nazis, or by a sentimental and well-meaning female medical personality...
...they do not know what they are fighting for, but because they do not need to know. Author Heym follows them through the liberation of Paris (barricade scenes, snipers, girls giving themselves to the conquerors in hotel rooms and in jeeps); through the Battle of the Bulge (scenes of slaughter at the front, the shooting of American prisoners); to the liberation of the first concentration camp (emaciated prisoners, panic-stricken Nazis, the guards killed by the prisoners). He follows the same group, picking up a few camp-followers, through captured Neustadt, Sergeant Bing's home town (street fighting...