Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...marching off, the battles got fought, then after a time the bodies -- and the cost of it all -- started coming home. Reality had its cause and effect, its dramatic pace. Now the natural rhythms of warmaking have gone electronic -- a good thing, possibly, but disconcerting. Time gets dismantled somehow; slaughter gets projected into the hypothetical. The adrenaline rushes prematurely; the cost gets reckoned before the deployment. So much anticipation overworks the nerves. The process causes hallucinations and jitters. Normally war begins without such neurotic projections...
Fifteen years ago, this peasant-based, uneducated Maoist group committed some of the worst human rights atrocities in recent (and long-term) history. Led by the radical Pol Pot, they overran the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 and proceeded to slaughter one in seven of their fellow citizens. Most city dwellers were herded into concentration camp-like "reeducation" communes in the countryside, better known as the killing fields...
...weighed 97 lbs. Richard, 12, was an inch under 5 ft. and only 80 lbs. The pathetic pair were admitted to the Andrew Drumm Institute, a boy's home on a working farm near Independence, Mo. There Richard attended high school and learned to grow vegetables and slaughter chickens for the institute's kitchen. There, too, he escaped to the pages of books and so impressed his teachers that they put him on a scholarship road to Yale...
...members of the House seeking re-election this November, only about 30 face serious opposition. The rest either are running unopposed or enjoy such a huge financial advantage that they might as well be. Thus no one in either party expects an explosion that could result in the wholesale slaughter of incumbents. "The gunpowder is on the floor," says R. Marc Nuttle, executive director of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, "but so far no one has struck the match." It is only a matter of time before someone does...
Though there are no documented cases of wild bison infecting cattle with brucellosis (which causes cows to abort their calves), Montana in 1985 decided to fight the disease by letting hunters kill bison that wandered out of Yellowstone National Park. The tactic aroused a national outcry. In the worst slaughter, two winters ago, hunters killed 569 of the park's 2,700 bison...