Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such war raged across 23,000 square miles of Europe. The explosion of men's nerves and brains became as commonplace as death and wounds. Casualties were impossible to assess in the flowing confusion. Four million men were engaged in the business of slaughter, their killing power multiplied by tens of thousands of slaughtering engines. Human morale could not long endure such war. Whoever best endured-and the strain was nearly as great on attackers as on defenders-must be the winner...
These are the men your objectors-to-service apparently think of as having been nothing but suckers for propaganda, and unwilling victims of a slaughter. That wouldn't trouble them. They have had a whirl, since 1917, at being considered pretty much everything as the cycle of fashion in thought revolved. First, of course they were Heroes. Then the debunking-novel period arrived and they were alleged to have been ruffians, bullies, and blackguards. Then for a while everybody was so busy that gold stars grew tarnished and were forgotten. And now, forsooth, the boys in the oak picture-frames...
Died. Chief White Wolf, 72, one of the survivors of South Dakota's Wounded Knee Massacre; in an automobile crash, while en route to Washington to ask Congress to pay damages for the 1890 slaughter of Sioux by U. S. troops; in Bedford...
...ninety years a violin mellows--wine ages--and men mature. The Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts has mellowed and aged; in his views on war he has not entirely matured. Three wars he has witnessed, their strife and their slaughter, but his words yesterday did little to prove...
...Book Three the idiot Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow. Mink Snopes murders a widower named Houston. The villagers, to cure the idiot of "stock-diddling," slaughter the cow and require him to eat of her. In a gruesome scene Houston's hound attacks Mink. Mink is caught and jailed...