Word: slayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before the actual dedication ceremonies, while bonfires blazed in the hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel to the battle of Blood River, that they would go forth on Dingaan's day to slay black men, women & children. The government broadcast special messages to allay their fears...
...people down at Soldiers Field Wednesday that habitual followers of the baseball team couldn't believe their eyes. Last year, it took a warm, sunny day and at least three other sports events to collect as many as 40 supporters in the stands; and now, on a cold, gray slay there were a couple of hundred people following the game into the final innings...
...Saud's letter included an indictment of Joshua as a war criminal. His version of what happened at the siege of Jericho differed from standard Biblical texts. Ibn Saud had Joshua commanding: "Burn ye all that is in the city and slay with the edge of the sword both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep, and burn the city with fire and all that is therein...
...sight of these my kinsmen assembled here eager to give battle, my limbs fail and my mouth is parched . . . . I desire neither victory nor empire nor even any pleasure. . . . I would not kill though they should kill me. . . . Far better would it be for me if [they] should slay me in the battle unarmed and unresisting...
...Career (See Cover) When Thomas Edmund Dewey sets out to slay a dragon, as he did in Albany last week (see above), he is no impetuous, old-fashioned St. George. He goes armed with concentrations of modern heavy artillery, preceded by elaborate reconnaissance and followed by a staff of logistics experts. As man, District Attorney or Governor, Tom Dewey is calm, neat, painstaking and deadly efficient...