Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indiscriminate killing. Genocide was never hailed as a virtue, of course, but in the post-Hitler era it has come in for special condemnation. Mass murder, we were told, was the single most abhorrent feature in the programs of both the Nazis and of international Communism. Both systems practiced slaughter and butchery on a mass scale, and that was reason enough for opposing their advances. Even today, the handful of stalwarts who still defend America's entry into Vietnam base their position on the alleged need to prevent the bloodbath that would inevitably follow a Communist takeover...
Papik discovers that whites are also baleful. He sees naked greed in an organized seal slaughter, intolerable boredom in a job at an automated fish-processing plant, and true lunacy in the fact that white oil explorers live by their clocks. The whites "are so crazy," he concludes that "they believe they alone make sense." In a glorious scene, he fashions a knife out of his own freezing excrement. When it is rock hard, he kills two huskies with it and builds a sled of pelts and bones. Then he triumphantly carries his family off to a free life...
...uphold a centuries-old feudal hegemony over 3,000,000 Hutu tribesmen, the well-armed Tutsi overlords, who number no more than 600,000, unleashed a violent pogrom last year. At least 80,000-and perhaps as many as 250,000-Hutus were killed. In May this year the slaughter revived in the southeastern part of the landlocked hill country (area: 10,747 sq. mi., smaller than Belgium). The latest Tutsi massacre was in retaliation for a three-pronged Hutu attack on Tutsi strongholds near the Tanzanian border. An estimated 15,000 have already been killed, and nearly...
...exempt from the freeze, they are being held in check because wholesalers and retailers refuse to pay more for supplies since their own prices are frozen. Thus farmers are killing chickens and taking other steps to reduce costs. Dairy farmers are being increasingly rigorous in picking out for slaughter all but the best milkers in their herds...
...indiscriminate killing. Genocide was never hailed as a virtue, of course, but in the post-Hitler era it has come in for special condemnation. Mass murder, we were told, was the single most abhorrent feature in the programs of both the Nazis and of international Communism. Both systems practiced slaughter and butchery on a mass scale, and that was reason enough for opposing their advances. Even today, the handful of stalwarts who still defend America's entry into Vietnam base their position on the alleged need to prevent the bloodbath that would inevitably follow a Communist takeover...