Word: slew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently tall, husky Sampson Nkbinde tried to collect a bad debt from Chief Shembe of the native sect of Nazareth Baptists, who pride themselves on never smoking, never drinking, never getting angry. Chief Shembe would not pay. Then Sampson rose in his wrath and slew four Nazareth Baptists. Still Chief Shembe would not pay. Sampson said, in effect, Pay-or else...
...mighty warriors arose from the West, who slew the tiger. . . Those were the heroic days of 1903, when Chicago humbled proud Princeton and shattered the Big Three football monopoly. Then great Chicago teams vied with great Harvard teams in crushing all foes. But now football glories for both lie mainly in recollection, except for spasms of life when a Jay Berwanger comes to Chicago, a Barry Wood or a Dick Harlow to Harvard...
Kirkland was dropped out of the House football lead by a giant-killing crowd of basketball players from Adams who slew the Deacons 7-6 by putting on the finest aerial attack ever seen in intra-mural football. The once-beaten, once tied 'Coasters completed pass after pass against a helpless Kirkland defense. Another surprise result, dimmed by the Deacon upset, was Lowell's last-ditch win over Eliot...
...Alaska: 1) Harold Le Clair Ickes & Bride accepted carved totem pole pins from Indian schoolchildren at Ketchikan; 2) Senator Reynolds of North Carolina slew a 3,000-lb. bull walrus which, wounded, charged his hunting party's boats off Wainwright...
...Paraffin tests last week determined that 13 Nationalistas fired the fusillade-65 to 80 shots-which slew two persons, wounded 32, at last fortnight's Occupation Day in Ponce. Detective Juan Colon shielded Governor Winship's body with his own, but one bullet ripped the Governor's trouser leg. For once U. S. colonial administration rose to the British standard: The Governor snorted: "What damn poor shots they...