Word: slaughterous
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...toward the rusty thickets of German barbed wire along the Somme valley; a few hours later, 60,000 of them were dead or wounded, and the cries of abandoned men were heard rising from no man's land for days afterward. The Somme offensive was the greatest military slaughter in history. The Edwardian vocabulary of war, with its ritual chants of "sacrifice," "honor," "comradeship," "red/Sweet wine of youth" (meaning blood), was impotent to describe the massacre of a generation. Trench warfare was all the more incomprehensible because those who were in it had inherited a tradition...
...bloodshed? On Sunday afternoon, friend and foe traveled to Sandyneck Beach on Cape Cod for the traditional pigroast, featuring, naturally, the slaughter and roasting of two lambs...
...close to the White House. It was towing a banner, hooked up backwards, that read: EMPEROR HIROHITO, PLEASE SAVE OUR WHALES. (It later turned out that the flight was sponsored by the Animal Welfare Institute, in an effort to get the Emperor to join the fight against the commercial slaughter of whales.) As the plane drew nearer, the anxious Secret Service was told by air controllers that the pilot was carefully sticking to a legal route down nearby K Street. Even so, agents radioed the command to have the pilot veer...
...faded. Frazier's face, especially his eyes, visibly swelled. Ali continued to press, knocking Frazier's mouthpiece out and following with a stiffening right. In the 14th, Ali hit Frazier at will. Frazier's left eye was almost sealed. That did it; Manager Futch stopped the slaughter...
...collection of poetry, The Women and the Men. The women she writes about are maternal, stifled, mistreated. And the men--well, she doesn't deal with men as individuals but as qualities. She likes the poetic reverberations of lions, for example: a "pride" of lions; the lion thrown to slaughter in Daniel's den, Daniel representing men; the lion representing an alternate male predicament. Her men throw fleeting shadows over these poems, usually their last lines, which strain for harmony. Her primary subject is Giovanni, fawningly courting invisible men or haunting strong women who are being broken incessantly down...