Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Motors or Alexander Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival gang, and 89 guests are parboiled. "Miraculously, the Congressmen and the judges came through the fire unharmed...
...spokesman for the Band of Mercy said the group made the raid to protest the work of Kern, who used the bunnies in her "Rabbit Production and Slaughter" class, which studies ways of raising rabbits for their meat...
...Diamondback story written last fall, Kern said her students were taught to slaughter the rabbits by severing each bunnie's spinal cord. "In many cases, the students had never seen an animal slaughtered...
When bunnies are killed in the class, students are taught to press their thumbs into the back of the rabbit's spine to kill the creature as humanely as possible, according to Edgar Young, animal science department chairman. "If slaughter can be humane, this is the most humane way to do it," he added...
...modest way, Jakob finds the centralized, autocratic German state harsh and arbitrary as well. It scorns the old, leaving them to languish and wither in unheated anonymity, and sends the young to the trenches. As Hegel claims, not without graceful ride, states disembowel individuals on "the slaughter bench of history...