Word: slit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Owen's volume, he sends his turkeys to a commercial slaughter house, where workers first slit the necks and allow the blood to drain. After immersion in scalding water, the birds go through a de-feathering machine equipped with rubber pins...
...feel nothing for the Muslims who lived in the house we have taken," he said, weeping for his own family. "Muslims moved into our old home in Kladusa. They killed my uncle last spring. How would you feel if you saw Muslims slit your uncle's throat, if you saw them throw Serb women and old people out of windows...
...evidence, accumulating for months, is now inescapable: like an addiction, hatred is consuming the people who used to call themselves Yugoslavs. Every throat slit makes someone else thirst for blood. "They killed my husband and son," says a tearful Bosnian refugee. "They burned our home. But they can never rest easy, because one day we will do the same to them, or worse. My children will get their revenge, or their children." No one anywhere can pretend any longer not to know what barbarity has engulfed the people of the former Yugoslavia...
Stoughton and Hollis,thealmost-identical North Yard dorms, offer one hugeroom for two people. Hollis andStoughton roommates either become bosombuddies fast or spend the year aching to slit eachother's throats. In any case, they get to knoweach other well...
...doing, it opened up a 30-minute gap in Coleman's account. During that time, prosecutors argued, Coleman parked his truck, waded across a creek, climbed a hill the length of three football fields, raped Wanda twice, slit / her throat, then escaped unseen. The prosecutors offered no eyewitnesses and little proof to support this scenario. In a sense, the most important clues in this case may be the ones that were missing. Given the haste with which Coleman would have had to act, he might have been expected to leave telling signs behind. A fingerprint. A footprint. At the very...