Word: slaughtering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evil magistrate has tightened the nooses round the hapless damsels' necks and with unimaginable cruelty is teasing his victims by rocking the rickety bench which stands between them and death. But he delays too long, giving the Injuns time to gallop up and save the day by attempting to slaughter all the inhabitants, starting, as luck would have it, with the malicious magistrate. Amid all the confusion of the attack, Joffe manages to sneak a cloyingly happy ending past the logic of the distracted narrative...
...accurate numbers tell how many women took part in the slaughter. One gauge may be Kigali prison. Of 10,000 inmates, all are men and boys except for the 342 women and their 116 children too young to be sent away...
...defending himself against these charges, Powell points out that continuing media coverage "was starting to make it look as if we were engaged in slaughter for slaughter's sake." Such a response is vintage Powell, demonstrating greater concern for appearances than for geopolitical realities. Powell could have explained to the American people why continuing the conflict was necessary. He instead chose the easy way out, in order to keep his public image intact...
...would have to give the President and Secretary Cheney a recommendation soon as to when to stop, I told Norm. The television coverage, I added, was starting to make it look as if we were engaged in slaughter for slaughter's sake...
...Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler (The Ballad of the Green Berets) and Country Joe & the Fish (I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag). The Korean War has a memorial now, but still no memorable songs. It's as if, after World War II, Americans decided that internationally sanctioned slaughter was no longer something to sing about...