Word: slaughterous
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Those head shots which Frazier landed late in the fight were little more than a fluke. The groundwork for the slaughter of the last five rounds had been skillfully laid during the previous ten. Forget Ali's jaw for a moment. Even if he couldn't talk to reporters after the fight, even if that lip of his will be hung up for a few days, it isn't nearly as hurt as his midsection, which will probably be on ice for the next few weeks...
...would have guessed three years ago that the straight and narrow pathway to success and admiration for a man named William Calley [Feb. 15] would be through his connection with the wholesale slaughter of 102 human beings...
...rather like waiting in the mystic whispering groves of Delphi to hear the oracle speak. Despite the primordial trappings, this virtual dumb show is as contemporary as tomorrow's bombing raid. It is a cantata of death, an immensely sad and strangely affecting tale of the wartime slaughter of innocents...
...DeMichele and Dave Hynes each scored three goals, while captain Joe Cavanagh and Bob McManama, who Jed all scorers with six points, had two goals apiece in the slaughter...
...were describing an apparent popular revulsion against the war, antiwar activists had no reason for optimism. When Lyndon Johnson was pulling the strings, and American soldiers were falling by the thousands, it was clear the war would end sooner or later. Americans would not send their sons to the slaughter indefinitely. But the Nixon nightmare of Vietnamization, which extracts the Americans and then incinerates the region, makes that confidence obsolete. This war can go on forever. Or until a nation and a culture are reduced to ash and rubble...