Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there came Old George-a little chubby, a toneless voice, but those steady eyes, that sense of hidden pow er. Was there something here after all? Each day he hit the "senseless slaughter" in Viet Nam, with the accent on senseless; and he talked about the glacial impersonality of government and bureaucracy and political parties...
...will care. They will read of two of them shot, and it will not be as many as four; they will harden themselves to the shock value that Kent presented. As time passes they will forget or become immune to the reality as they have become immune to the slaughter in Viet Nam. They will present the same apathetic front that destroyed Germany in the '30s, and history will repeat itself...
...Giants wasted an eight-run advantage and lost 17-16 to the lowly San Diego Padres. Last week they even let a pitcher clobber them when Los Angeles' Claude Osteen rapped out two singles, a double and a homer to lead the Dodgers to a 19-3 slaughter...
...freelance Washington journalist who has just won a Pulitzer Prize for his effort, places the number of dead at between 450 and 500. Describing the murderous mood of the U.S. troops, he writes: "A G.I. was chasing a duck with a knife; others stood around watching a G.I. slaughter a cow with a bayonet. A G.I. with an M-16 rifle fired at two young boys walking along a road. The older of the two-about seven or eight years old-fell over the first to protect him. The G.I. kept on firing until both were dead." Hammer quotes...
...murders, the likes of which this country had not seen before. Not only did we have the old-fashioned type of homicide, but we had torrents of political murders (four major assassinations, the Panthers, My Lai) and drug murders. The problem is that these three categories of sixties-style slaughter are sure bets to hold over (and possibly flourish) in this new decade. This month along has given us Augusta, Jackson and Kent State...