Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie and The Tide. If there was one outstanding hero of last week's Series, it was Southpaw Ernie White. With the help of two miraculous one-handed catches by Outfielders Enos Slaughter and Terry Moore, White whitewashed the Yankees, 2-to-0-something that had not happened to them in a World Series in 16 years...
...Country's Rabbits. But neither White nor Beazley could have been a hero without Enos Slaughter, mightiest of the Missouri robber barons. Though his teammates call him "Country"-because he came to the Cardinal tryout camp straight from the North Carolina backwoods-there is nothing slow about Slaughter. He is the second-best batter (.318) in the National League, is almost a Ty Cobb on the bases, has a magnetic mitt and a mighty arm (developed, he says, pegging stones at rabbits when he was a shaver...
...Another explanation was offered by Theologian Johann Süssmilch, who observed the phenomenon in 18th-Century Europe. Divine Providence, he said, brings more boy babies into the world to compensate for the slaughter of men in battle...
...Bartholomew's Day in 1572 French Catholics, egged on by Catherine de Medici, began to slaughter 50,000 Hugenots...
...Japanese military and police followed traditions reaching back to primitive ages . . . ranging from disregard of diplomatic courtesies to the imprisonment and torture of American and British correspondents, businessmen and missionaries, the massacre of British and American wounded at Hong Kong and Wake Island . . . the rape and slaughter of British women, including war hospital nurses." A U.S. dentist who had practiced in Hong Kong seven years. Dr. J. S. Pyne, told of Hong Kong's fall: "They lined up about 3,000 British and Americans and marched us down the main street four abreast before the native population. . . . There...