Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike at 0540, Oct. 25; during the day Task Force 38 planes made 527 sorties, sank three carriers and a destroyer and crippled a fourth carrier. U.S. surface ships and submarines sank the crippled carrier, a light cruiser and a destroyer. But Bull Halsey was not around for the slaughter; for hours he had been getting urgent queries as to his whereabouts, desperate requests for help off Samar. At 1055 Halsey gave in to the pressure, ordered a large part of his force to turn back south -and went with them. By the time he got back to Leyte Gulf...
...strikeout slaughter when what could
...tossed in an occasional elbow for old time's sake. In the 14th, eyes glowering behind scarred, gnarled brows, Basilio took a right hand that staggered him back against the ropes. He swayed there for seconds before somehow managing to advance again. But the referee called off the slaughter, and the unmarked pug from Utah was N.B.A. middleweight champ...
...adequate Banquo, though a little colorless for a man who is supposed to be Macbeth's honorable rival. As Macduff, Roy Poole has a slight vocal problem; but he has a noble manner, and rises to great heights in the moving scene in which he is informed of the slaughter of his family. Duncan is a weak old king, but not so weak as Pat Malone makes him. Barry Macollum is a deeply affecting Physician. William Myers' Lennox needs to smooth out his jerkv delivery...
...Barracudas herd schools of fish, much as man herds cattle, and slaughter them at their own convenience...