Word: slew
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Those Who Must Die. Almost every ancient tribe had a bloody custom or two, but the Scythians seemed to combine them all. They not only scalped their fallen foes but also drank their blood. A man who slew an enemy in the sight of the king was allowed to keep his victim's skull as a drinking bowl. When the king pronounced the death penalty on a person, he also automatically condemned to death all of the man's male relatives. Scythian kings never died alone. The head groom, the head cupbearer, the head cook and at least...
...plate Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller lived up to his reputation as the Republican Party's most dedicated back patter: enjoying himself hugely. Rocky slapped a slew of G.O.P. shoulder blades, even slung an affectionate arm around a handsome new bust of himself (by Italian Sculptor Gualberto Rocchi...
...scratched his foot with one of the poisoned arrows and was cast into exile by his companions, who found the smell of the wound un bearable. When the Greeks learned that only Hercules' arrow could win the war. they persuaded Philoctetes to rejoin the battle, and he promptly slew Trojan Enemy Paris. See SCIENCE, Philoctetes Was Here...
...descendants took him at his word Prince Johann Adam bought a slew of Van Dycks and Rubenses, possibly including Rubens' voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close...
...also produced a handful of society novels, beginning with his first book, Precaution, written in 1820 on a dare by his wife, and there were times when Cooper seemed to regard these as his most exciting work. Though his own Natty Bumppo-the Deerslayer-eventually slew this illusion, Cooper could write: "Europe itself is a Romance, while all America is a matter of fact, humdrum, common sense region from Quoddy to Cape Florida...