Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shooting, gassing and drowning of Jews, gypsies and other minorities, the execution of Russian soldiers, political commissars and civilians, and the deportation of Russians to Germany for slave labor. The defense tried to show that there was little to connect their client personally with any of these deeds. The slaughter of Jews, contended his British and German lawyers, was carried out by an SS unit attached to Manstein's command only for "supply" purposes...
...younger sister of the nameless Philistine woman who was the Biblical Samson's wife. The final adaptation skillfully manages to achieve the most serviceability for the screen with the least violence to Scripture. Its best job is to create conviction in Samson's feats: e.g., his slaughter with the jawbone of an ass looks plausible because the script places him tactically in a narrow defile where he can take on the Philistines a few at a time...
...freshman at the piano was now rendering "Slaughter on 10th Avenue." My third tonic bottle was emptied, and I headed for supper, passing, on the way out, one guest with a Boy Scout badge in his lapel. Only one of the freshmen had been in uniform--khakis and blazer--and most wore matching coats and trousers. It won't be so in four years...
...ironic note of the whole slaughter was that in a game where the extra points meant nothing, Princeton's Frank Reichel booted four out of five...
...younger days one of the Navy's hottest pilots, a wartime carrier commander, Navy member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Japan and of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group at Bikini, declared that atomic area bombing would be little more than "random mass slaughter" and militarily unsound. Strategic bombing, he said, did not have a decisive effect in World War II. Cried Ofstie, "It is time that strategic bombing ... be examined in relation to the decent opinions of mankind...