Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Dalmia contributed a new wrinkle to India's liberation problems. "I have arrived," said he, "at the conclusion that unless within a year of the liberation of India cow slaughter is prohibited by law, I shall stake all I have, I will pool all my resources and energies that I command, I shall be prepared to starve to death. I shall not hesitate to lay down my life for this most sacred cause...
Rich Hindus sometimes seek to insure a happy reincarnation by endowing pinjarapoles-hostels for aging and infirm cows. But it seemed unlikely that Hindu India would outlaw cow slaughter. Mohandas Gandhi, a cow protector from way back, explained somewhat cattily: "India is a land not only of Hindus but of Moslems, Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and Jews. If cow slaughter can be prohibited in India on religious grounds, why can't Pakistan then prohibit [Hindu] idol worship in Pakistan on similar grounds...
Martha Ellen Young had seen the Federal "Redlegs" of the Civil War storm out of Kansas and slaughter her family's hogs. Her girlhood memories were of dances in the front parlor. "I was what you might call a light-foot Baptist...
Tokyo schoolchildren wrote to the zoo keepers to say that the slaughter of their animals constituted "unbearable acts of indignity." To console them, the keepers had the beasts stuffed and reinstalled in their cages or in glass showcases. In death as in life the zoo's star attraction was Tora San, the huge tiger. Propped up before a painted backdrop of lush green jungle, his bared fangs sent many a moppet scurrying closer to his mother's kimono...
...three: Democrat Albert A. Ridge, onetime bugler in Harry Truman's Battery D; Truman Crony J. Caskie Collet; Republican Albert L. Reeves Sr., whose son defeated Enos Axtell, Harry Truman's nominee to succeed Slaughter, in the November elections...