Word: slit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juan Manuel de Rosas, dictator of Argentina, was a hellion. He wore lace-trimmed drawers, lived almost exclusively on beef, rode like a centaur and decimated the population of his country. He once slit the throats of 1,500 prisoners of war, was defeated and forced to flee the country in 1852 by a former lieutenant, Justo Jose de Urquiza, head of an army of hard riding gauchos...
...from the dead. Apparently illumined by strong light from above, the figure much resembles the heroic Transfiguration over the high altar. Dr. Norwood says he noticed it some time ago. But that is not all. He has also found a Buddha, another Christ, and a horrid Brute Man with slit-eyes, pointed ears and lightning coursing about his head...
...night the U. S. delegation's office was entered, Delegate Gibson's desk was ransacked and Senator Swanson's locked briefcase was slit open, nothing taken. This secret the U. S. delegation kept until, on a subsequent night last week, the breaking and entering was repeated (again no takings). Peace Man Gibson reported to the police...
...block of wood for his pillow. At 2 a. m. he would arise, pray until 5 a. m., then go to Dublin's Gardiner Street Church to make the Stations of the Cross. Because he wore a long overcoat, other worshippers did not notice that he had slit the knees of his trousers the better to abrade his flesh...
...truck back into the road. By this time the deputies were on the run. Dr. Malcolm, who tarried longer than the rest, lost his hat, brief case and suit case, had the gas line of his car broken, the radiator filled with mud, the windows smashed, the tires slit with pitchforks. He refused to get out of the car, was pushed in it to Wilton Junction. From there he scurried to Iowa City and soon had his appeal for aid telephoned to Governor Dan Turner in Washington...