Word: slaughterous
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...cycle has begun to swing toward shortages; Charles Wilson, economic research director for the big Iowa Beef Processors Inc., believes that beef supplies in the next few months may dip by an "almost frightening" 20%. Such cutbacks have already forced up the price of cattle ready for slaughter by 30%, to about 50? per lb., and supermarket executives expect to begin passing along the increases almost immediately. But consumers may again balk at buying beef, if it becomes too expensive...
Princeton's star center, Andy Rimol, left the Jadwin Gym floor early in the game with an injured Knee but junior Tim Van Blommesteyn, a 6 ft. 3 in. guard, dropped in a career high 16 points and sophomores Bob Slaughter, Barnes Hauptfuhrer and Armond Hill pulled together to down the Crimson...
...SURPRISING FEATURE of the Panther case was not that the police had perpetrated such a slaughter. Edward V. Hanrahan (Harvard Law, '48), then State's Attorney for Cook County, had declared war on Chicago street gangs soon after he was elected in 1968. The Black P. Stone Nation on the South Side was the largest. It had several thousand members, and was turning from traditional gang activities to organizing for political and economic action. The group posed a threat to Mayor Daley's control of ghetto votes and became a prime target for Daley's machine. The Black Panthers, despite...
There is no question that Richard Nixon is a problem. He is a liar who has caused the slaughter of millions of Asians. He has tried to deceive the American people, he has tried to ignore their laws, he has tried to subvert their rights and he has attempted to gather the power of their government into his office...
...indiscriminate killing. Genocide was never hailed as a virtue, of course, but in the post-Hitler era it has come in for special condemnation. Mass murder, we were told, was the single most abhorrent feature in the programs of both the Nazis and of international Communism. Both systems practiced slaughter and butchery on a mass scale, and that was reason enough for opposing their advances. Even today, the handful of stalwarts who still defend America's entry into Vietnam base their position on the alleged need to prevent the bloodbath that would inevitably follow a Communist takeover...