Word: slaughterous
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...Anababtists selected the town of Muenster in West Phalla as the New Jerusalem. They marched into the market place prepared to be as sheep for the slaughter, but armed with swords just as a reminder of what they might do if they chose. Whereupon a revelation from the Holy Ghost instructed them to choose that which they might. Catholics and Lutherane were expelled... Roland Bainton, 16th Century Reformation...
...slaughter may just turn out to be a shadow victory, however. Tom Engle, probably the team's best midfielder, broke his collar bone in the second half. Before he was injured, Engle scored three goals, and in the game against Brown he put in the winning point. The team will now have to do without his services...
...course there is yet one other way of avoiding all conflict in Mississippi this summer, and that is simply not to go. Strangely enough, the proponents of the status quo in Mississippi also use reason of "slaughter" and "racial clash" to justify leaving the state in the hands of the White Citizens Council and the Negro population to its usual state of maleducation, harassment, and deprivation. But we do not intend to take what undoubtedly would be this "safer" course, and leave matters as they are; despite these real risks, we are going ahead with the project in the hopes...
According to him, there are two alternatives: slaughter and racial clash. But there is another alternative which Mr. Lerner apparently did not consider: the intervention and protection by the Federal Government, which we consider has the duty and the obligation to protect American citizens -- even in Mississippi -- who will be conducting themselves in a constitutional manner to attain rights already guaranteed to them by the same constitution...
Naturally we are aware of the potential for "slaughter" and "racial clash," as Mr. Lerner puts it, but if he had asked us, we would have told him what we are doing to avoid these possibilities...