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Word: slayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existence of cannibalism, says Arens. One example: 16th century accounts of cannibalism among the Tupinamba, a now extinct Brazilian tribe, all use similar wording. Arens thinks it unlikely "that a parade of international travelers all passed through a Tupinamba encampment on different days when the Indians were about to slay a war captive while the main characters were repeating similar statements to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Do People Really Eat People? | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...animals with sharp teeth and razor-like talons are kept inside cages. But in New Jersey tomorrow, one such animal, the Princeton Tigers tennis team, will be roaming free just about 88 feet from the Crimson netmen. The Harvard mission is not only to come out alive but to slay the Tigers, and grab a share of the Eastern League tennis title...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Battle Princeton For Eastern League Title | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

...Slay, 30, and Fay Dunson, 27, have been married only 18 months and, without going on an austerity budget, they have already saved $11,000 toward a down payment on a house. Both work for Xerox near Los Angeles, and they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's New Elite | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...hound gloom, Lucas is a romantic-an innocent romantic. That innocence and that feeling for romance are what make Star Wars so fresh, so much fun and, finally, so fantastic. Lucas believed everything he put on film, and somewhere under the celluloid, he is Luke Sky-walker-out to slay the dragon, rescue the princess and find the Holy Grail. Black is black, white is white, and good will conquer evil, at least in his screening room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: STAR WARS The Year's Best Movie | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Simone Weil died Aug. 24, 1943, in a Middlesex, England, hospital. The death certificate satisfied the requirements of science: "myocardial degeneration of the heart muscles due to starvation and pulmonary tuberculosis." The needs of the law were fulfilled at the official inquiry: "The deceased did kill and slay herself by refusing to eat whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed." Neither statement could satisfy those who knew Simone Weil as a philosopher, teacher, factory worker, soldier, writer and friend. Her mind was not a scale to be tipped between sanity and insanity but a fixed crystal that gathered every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suicidal Hunger Artist | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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