Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...echo from 30 years ago: John Kennedy held up Barbara Tuchman's book The Guns of August, told visitors that its story of the start of World War I and the modern age of slaughter was a tale of failed communication. Still, he never called...
English flags are inherently symbolic of the degradation, oppression and slaughter of my people which continues even today in the British occupied northern six counties of Ireland. Consequently, following the lead of Duncan and the advice of Master Dowling, I insist that the University address this issue and effect the removal or destruction of all symbols of British tyranny...
Rurik's sons and grandsons not only united the Slavs of the Dnieper Valley but also were soon trying to expand. In 907 Prince Oleg invaded the Eastern Roman Empire with 2,000 ships, "accomplished much slaughter among the Greeks" and supposedly nailed his shield to the imperial gates of Constantinople. From this foray, the Russians brought home to their capital in Kiev an advantageous trade treaty and an even more advantageous contact with the Christian religion and sophisticated culture of Constantinople. Thus emerged the first Russian state, known as Kievan Russia...
...Crimson (13-4 overall, 3-3 Ivy) hit the nadir of its season with a surprise loss to Columbia. But just as Harvard rose up from the Cornell slaughter earlier this month, last weekend's blues couldn't keep the team down...
...were wounded; two, a 17-year-old and a boy of four, lay dead, cut down by automatic gunfire in Garden Grove, Calif. But what infuriated Ralph Rodriguez, a cousin of the dead child's, was that not one witness was willing to tell police what everyone knew: the slaughter was a revenge killing by the 5th Street gang from nearby Santa Ana, where Rodriguez lives. "I started screaming, and I made people talk to the police," he recalls. "I knew everybody they named as the shooters. I knew all their families." Rodriguez, 32, helped investigators gather testimony and even...