Word: slayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automatically slaughtered all of his prisoners, and it quoted from I Samuel: "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts . . . Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not." The committee reported the exhortations of Germanicus as his legions poured into the Rhineland: "Slay, and slay on! Do not take prisoners...
...that A-B-C symbolic level, when the panther eats up some Good Instincts (cows), a sort of back-country Cain (Robert Mitchum) and his Abel-type brother (William Hopper) set forth to slay the beast. Abel dies beneath the Tree of Life and Cain also turns up his toes. But a third brother (Tab Hunter) puts a bullet in the panther, and just at that instant the sun breaks through a cloud, transfiguring him into something painfully like the Better Life...
...Wherfor have Sir Gawaine and his brethren sworne a greate vow to journee to the Holly Woode, and onloose the fayr Colhumbia, allso to slay the dreadfull dragoun Metr Ogol Dwynma Yer, and anie other of his breede yt they shal finde. Avaunt! eftsoons bee al mal engine full awroke...
...knight school. His name was Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy, but he was not very brave or even very bright. When the other students went to jousting class, Gawaine would hide in the woods. At last the headmaster gave up and told him to take the snap course in dragon-slaying. Gawaine was delighted, and spent the rest of his school days hacking at the model dragon on the south meadow. On commencement day, the headmaster gave Gawaine a magic word ("Rumplesnitz") and sent him forth to slay real live dragons. The very next day, Gawaine said the good word...
Jawaharlal Nehru thought he knew where India's dragon lay, and went off to slay him. "Communalism," he declared, "is India's greatest enemy. In the north, this communal poison has created hatred between Hindus and Sikhs. In the south, it has created antagonism between Brahmins and non-Brahmins . . . Unless we wipe out these communal parties, India will go to pieces...