Word: slaughterous
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...behavior may be the scrutiny of his fellow man. It is only behind his mask that the Mardi Gras reveler loses his inhibitions and dares to act as he feels. So it is with today's driver, says one of Germany's leading sociologists. To reduce the slaughter of "that guerrilla war we call traffic," Bielefeld University Professor Helmut Schelsky advocates doing away with anonymity on the highway. How? As a first step, he would put names instead of number plates on cars. At the very least, he would let the police give out, on request, names corresponding...
...King seemed sad but not apologetic about the slaughter. "We tolerated a great deal in the hope that we could avert such a disaster," he said. "There was an explosion and it could not be averted." Most significant, Hussein appears ready to risk yet another explosion if the fedayeen challenge his authority again. Said the beleaguered King, who has outlawed guerrilla leaders George Habash of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Nayef Hawatmeh of the even more extreme Popular Democratic Front: "There will be law and order in this country. Jordan will never tolerate a state...
Although the role of the central government in much of the slaughter is still in dispute, Suharto has since imprisoned 100,000 suspected political enemies...
...open range to roam in. The land could absorb excretion; natural processes converted it to fertilizer. Today the steer is likely to be crowded into outdoor feed lots with only 200 sq. ft. of living space. Feed lots, where livestock is scientifically bred and fattened for slaughter, were rare in the early 1950s. Now there are 256,000 for cattle alone, and a single facility containing 50,000 head is not uncommon. Since these feed lots are concentrated near cities, transporting manure for fertilizer to rural areas is not economical...
Vestiges of his childhood and his manic adolescence remain. He can still be persuaded upon occasion to do visceral and sometimes appalling routines like "Cow to the Slaughter" and the "Wolf Man." The days when gambling had become so compulsive that he would place bets on both competing teams are well behind him, but he still takes a shot at the Las Vegas slot machines now and again. Gould remains an energetic sports freak, and a picture of New York Knickerbocker Star Willis Reed is Scotch-taped to his bedroom wall. His conversation is salted with sports slang and four...