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  • The Hot Mix Duck Massacre.†   (source)
  • From the popular website WorldNetDaily, an editorial suggesting that the Newtown gun massacre was engineered by the federal government to turn public opinion on gun control measures.†   (source)
  • While Muggles have been told that Black is carrying a gun (a kind of metal wand that Muggles use to kill each other), the magical community lives in fear of a massacre like that of twelve years ago, when Black murdered thirteen people with a single curse.†   (source)
  • We wanted more than victories, we wanted massacres.†   (source)
  • "They massacred them," Nehemia whispered, her eyes wide.†   (source)
  • So whenever people saw us, we reminded them of the massacres, and that struck fear in their hearts again.†   (source)
  • Not for this massacre he's leaving behind.†   (source)
  • I remember those ardent simpletons who said—and this was after the massacre of those 2,800 civilians in Hue, in '68—that the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese were our moral superiors.†   (source)
  • I feel ready for massacre and mayhem.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno was clearly in shock, delirious no doubt from his physical trauma and bearing witness to the horrific massacre in the Pope's office.†   (source)
  • Soldiers spend the majority of their time there, ducking in trenches doomed to explode or making daring pushes that end in a massacre.†   (source)
  • Then she heard a tiny sound: a little newborn pigeon had been spared from the massacre.†   (source)
  • Texas Chain Saw Massacre.†   (source)
  • Before they jumped right into massacre mode.†   (source)
  • Though they were still fairly evenly matched with the enemy, they huddled together like the last survivors of a massacre, as if they hoped the enemy would overlook them in the carnage.†   (source)
  • He left a squad of men with the bodies, and for the next hour or so they stopped all travellers along the road and forced them to read the notice and view the massacre.†   (source)
  • Besides watching Iraq's borders and protecting the Kurdish minority, who Saddam had gassed and massacred in the past, U.S. troops were enforcing no-fly zones in the north and south.†   (source)
  • It was a massacre.†   (source)
  • Do you want me to bolt the doors so you can massacre the unsuspecting townsfolk?†   (source)
  • Take him to a movie—and not The Texas Chainsaw Massacre because he'll just hide his face in his hands the whole time.†   (source)
  • It was nothing less than a massacre.†   (source)
  • You better get out of here or you'll get massacred.†   (source)
  • For days afterward, our little tribe of savages formed raiding parties and conducted massacres throughout Coalwood.†   (source)
  • I'd watched as King Mithridates sided with the Persians and massacred every Roman in Anatolia.†   (source)
  • Just a few weeks before the Wendy's massacre in Queens, two former Wendy's employees in South Bend, Indiana, received prison terms for murdering a pair of coworkers during a robbery that netted $1,400.†   (source)
  • He saw everything with perfect clarity , three groups all hellbent for Misery in the crenellated passages behind the idol's forehead, two wanting to kill her, the third , consisting of Ian, Geoffrey, and Hezekiah , trying to save her …. while below, the village of the Bourkas burned and the survivors massed at the one point of egress , the idol's left ear , to massacre anyone who happened to stagger out alive.†   (source)
  • It explains any number of massacres, wars, executions.†   (source)
  • And in Ayemenem, where once the loudest sound had been a musical bus horn, now whole wars, famines, picturesque massacres and Bill Clinton could be summoned up like servants.†   (source)
  • If there had been a massacre, the tinker would certainly have heard.†   (source)
  • You're the only thing that kept this from being a massacre.†   (source)
  • Old, fat, and contented, she had arrived in the company of her oldest son who, like his father, had been a colonel in the army but had been repudiated by him because of his contemptible behavior during the massacre of the banana workers in San Juan de la Cienaga.†   (source)
  • He ran a long feature on George Vandeveer, charlatan attorney for the Wobbly defense in the Everett Massacre deliberations.†   (source)
  • A great massacre, it seemed, was in the offing.†   (source)
  • And Martinez Reyna and his wife murdered in their bed, and thousands of Haitians massacred at the border, making the river, they say, still run red —Ay, Dios santo!†   (source)
  • His momma must have been scared in an Indian massacre in Africa.†   (source)
  • For many years to come, the smell of burning tires, the smell of revolt, of roadblocks and massacres, would be an abiding odor in Haiti, and in Ophelia's life and Paul's.†   (source)
  • He'd massacre us in court."†   (source)
  • And then when they turned around and went back, the Minutemen hid in the fields along the roads and massacred them all the way back to Boston.†   (source)
  • As he narrowed the gap between them, the man began to plead for mercy, promising he would tell no one about the massacre and holding out his hands to show they were empty.†   (source)
  • This boy-the one who had walked into Sterling High this morning and committed a massacre-was someone's son.†   (source)
  • If we embark on the course Mandela is suggesting, we will be exposing innocent people to massacres by the enemy.†   (source)
  • After all, this is the city of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, of jazz, gangsters, and speakeasies.†   (source)
  • A few days after the massacre in Timisoara, Ceausescu gave a speech in Bucharest before one hundred thousand people.†   (source)
  • Of course he would be the first one massacred if there was any smart Indians left.†   (source)
  • The massacre claimed between four hundred and eight hundred lives and transfixed the world.†   (source)
  • I'll have to intervene to avert a massacre.†   (source)
  • The boldface headline read, "WEDDING NIGHT MASSACRE AT HYATT."†   (source)
  • I doubt any more than that survived the massacres of the last century, but if they want to make a soviet on the reservations, that's their problem!†   (source)
  • He wanted to massacre them each time they did.†   (source)
  • Were they about to massacre us—or were they just naturally grumpy?†   (source)
  • …yesterday against the American occupation of Vietnam, today against the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia; yesterday for Israel, today for the Palestinians; yesterday for Cuba, tomorrow against Cuba and always against America; at times against massacres and at times in support of other massacres; Europe marches on, and to keep up with events, to leave none of them out, its pace grows faster and faster, until finally the Grand March is a procession of rushing, galloping people and the…†   (source)
  • He'll massacre me.†   (source)
  • They left the room looking lived in but not massacred.†   (source)
  • He revealed himself about the same time as the massacres began.†   (source)
  • He wants a massacre.†   (source)
  • A young apprentice living in his house had been one of those killed in the Boston Massacre.†   (source)
  • A vice premier of the People's Republic was killed in a private massacre in Kowloon.†   (source)
  • Of massacres in distant countries, pregnant women dismembered in the squares.†   (source)
  • In 1998, DEVGRU operators tracked Bosnian war criminals, including Radislav Krstic, the Bosnian general who was later indicted for his role in the Srebrenica massacre of 1995.†   (source)
  • When I came in sight of them, I slowed down, laughing and hugging myself; it was going to be a massacre.†   (source)
  • We had the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the Harley Davidson Workout, and a few other Friday workouts that were particularly hard.†   (source)
  • A graveyard … a massacre.†   (source)
  • Michael chuckled, his fingers piloting the soldier onscreen through a massacre.†   (source)
  • Even though he had used his knowledge of the law to suspend Cuba's writ of habeas corpus, and even though the January 12 massacre was reported in the New York Times, Castro's Harvard speech was interrupted time after time by enthusiastic cheering and applause.†   (source)
  • The story quoted a relative who said that the mother had tried desperately to drop off the kids at her sister's place only a few hours before the massacre, but the sister had to go to work and couldn't take the kids.†   (source)
  • The Whirling Dervishes of Konya have come to us as refugees from the Ottoman Empire, which has of late been the site of an unspeakable massacre of the Armenian people by the Sultan's army.†   (source)
  • The Friend A week after Judson's decision, a new painting was unveiled in New Haven titled, The Amistad Massacre.†   (source)
  • I've stood at Auschwitz, where millions were massacred.†   (source)
  • Janice shouted through her hands, "Someone stop this massacre!"†   (source)
  • [I intend] to Massacre the last one of them that ever has or may hereafter place his unhallowed feet upon the soil of our sunny South.†   (source)
  • Drizzt's observations that the barbarians hadn't yet recovered from the massacre on Bryn Shander's slopes rang painfully true.†   (source)
  • One hears all these stories of Indians and massacres and lean backwoodsmen with ten-foot rifles and rain dances and what not, and yet here, your officers…"He shook his head.†   (source)
  • It would be a perfect massacre.†   (source)
  • The scene kept him awake for nights after, and he still referred to the day as the Great Gull Massacre, refusing to take me back to the pond for that reason.†   (source)
  • They were all just standing back, looking at me like they were witnessing the Texas Chain Saw Massacre.†   (source)
  • Had not been able to establish control over laser gunners until fight was over and himself had fought solo in massacre in Old Dome.†   (source)
  • Something like the 1979 massacre at Mecca, all those pilgrims dead.†   (source)
  • The young woman who had carried out a massacre of innocents in the name of Islam was obviously frightened.†   (source)
  • It knows that the massacre will happen again on the roadside, that the workers in the minibus are going to be lined up and shot down just after quitting time; but it also credits as a reality the squeeze of the hand, the actuality of sympathy and protectiveness between living creatures.†   (source)
  • MASSACRE The next thing I knowed the sun was shining bright and somebody was hollering, "Patrollers."†   (source)
  • Come on in to my Combat Plot, and listen to the war, if such a massacre can be called a war.†   (source)
  • Suddenly a host of Turkish rides on shore opened up all together, and the massacre began.†   (source)
  • But she was conscious of some religious ceremony as an assemblage of Jews unveiled a monument commemorating their massacre and their martyrdom and the sound of a tenor voice keened its Hebrew requiem over the desolate gray scene like an angel with a dagger through its heart.†   (source)
  • Had all the riders been massacred by Apaches?†   (source)
  • The massacre began.†   (source)
  • Thus, even had he not joined in the sense of shocked outrage with which all of Boston greeted the "Boston Massacre," he would nevertheless have profited by remaining silent.†   (source)
  • For all her life the shy Jenny could look, if she stayed in the parlor, back and forth between her mother's two paintings, "The Bird Fair" and "The Massacre at Fort Rosalie."†   (source)
  • They'd braved intimidation, even massacres, to make it happen and to vote.†   (source)
  • They were thought to be behind the terrible Mumbai massacre of 2008.†   (source)
  • My big sister had been ready to march right out and bang a few heads if a massacre got started.†   (source)
  • I had read about the Hazara massacre in Mazar-i-Sharif in the papers.†   (source)
  • He didn't know about the wedding massacre yet.†   (source)
  • The result had been known ever after as The Hot Mix Duck Massacre.†   (source)
  • The Kanjobal women in her house had all lost their husbands and children to an army massacre.†   (source)
  • She felt her cheering was only making the massacre worse.†   (source)
  • Massacres, genocides, that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • And two years later, in 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif.†   (source)
  • First the leaders and the led, then the tyrants and the slaves, then the massacres.†   (source)
  • He felt as he had after the Boston Massacre trials, "borne down" by the weight of unpopularity.†   (source)
  • Deo happened to be at home on Runda when the massacres in the north began.†   (source)
  • The rest were dead, slaughtered in a massacre on a quiet, tree-lined street in New York.†   (source)
  • I found it and used it in many glorious massacres.†   (source)
  • When your second son was jailed for a massacre, you were not shattered.†   (source)
  • Yet the truth of the September Massacres was hardly less appalling.†   (source)
  • His wife and five children had all died in the massacre.†   (source)
  • I asked her how she would get to Massacre.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of soldiers massacred at this spot …. that should've sent out some kind of death vibe.†   (source)
  • The crossfire will be murderous; if he's in there it could be a massacre.†   (source)
  • "You're making this massacre very difficult, but all right, I will recount our story.†   (source)
  • The hunters had become the hunted and the battle devolved into a massacre.†   (source)
  • All there is to say about a massacre, things like 'Poo-tee-weet?'†   (source)
  • We left immediately, only minutes before the massacre.†   (source)
  • I know you guys don't like to mention that massacre in the nineteen— eighties—".†   (source)
  • It might not be a good idea to bring up her massacre in Enskede.†   (source)
  • It was a massacre, and White men committed it, and not one Red raised a hand in violence or defense.†   (source)
  • If you was to find Indians you'd be the one's massacred, most likely.†   (source)
  • If you're referring to us nearly being massacred in Italy, then, yes.†   (source)
  • It's our greatest hope of surviving this massacre."†   (source)
  • They massacred the Americans even after they threw down their weapons.†   (source)
  • There's been a massacre in the yoga studio, and they need clean mats."†   (source)
  • I'll be surprised if we don't get massacred.†   (source)
  • So wouldn't he leave one alive to tell about it, if he was doing massacres?†   (source)
  • 'I start now' She would catch one of the fishing boats at Massacre and get into town.†   (source)
  • They were slaughtered; it was a massacre.†   (source)
  • There were a couple of videos in which survivors -- Emmanuel, prominently -- described the massacre.†   (source)
  • Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.†   (source)
  • Or was his massacre a way to turn attention to himself, finally, instead of Joey?†   (source)
  • Deo got word of the massacre at his uncle's house, in Bujumbura.†   (source)
  • Attack them at their base, and we'd be massacred."†   (source)
  • In the morning, you will ride forth to a glorious matrimonial massacre!†   (source)
  • Some of the conversation turned on the stories about Red massacres down south.†   (source)
  • If all this was true, no trace would remain of the massacre that he'd escaped all those years ago.†   (source)
  • Then this massacre, er, meeting is called to order.†   (source)
  • THE NIGHT before a big massacre, you might think I would toss and turn.†   (source)
  • When he thought about what was going on, he thought the massacres must have been planned.†   (source)
  • It is an incomplete account of the massacres, but its tone seems evenhanded.†   (source)
  • "We're here to massacre these mortals, feed on their flesh, and take their souls.†   (source)
  • We owe this description to a post rider, the only witness to the massacre, who died shortly after.†   (source)
  • They were— surprise—every one massacred by Angelo and thrown in the lake.†   (source)
  • He also is suspected of having orchestrated the PresidenCs Day Massacre, which must have required maximum infiltration of the security system surrounding Congress, and without which the Constitution could never have been suspended.†   (source)
  • The massacre of the Cathars.†   (source)
  • The first anyone ever heard of him, he came down from somewhere north of Dallas and massacred the two small covens that shared the area near Houston.†   (source)
  • There would be rumors that he had taken his own life, that he'd been gunned down in the heat of battle; rumors that he'd been saved for last, made to watch the massacre of his family, then shot.†   (source)
  • The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing.†   (source)
  • Militants from Saeed and Nadia's country had crossed over to Vienna the previous week, and the city had witnessed massacres in the streets, the militants shooting unarmed people and then disappearing, an afternoon of carnage unlike anything Vienna had ever seen, well, unlike anything it had seen since the fighting of the previous century, and of the centuries before that, which were of an entirely different and greater magnitude, Vienna being no stranger, in the annals of history, to…†   (source)
  • But now I shall recount, to the best of my gathered knowledge, what happened elsewhere on that saddest of afternoons, that most shocking massacre high in the Hindu Kush, the worst disaster ever to befall the SEALs in any conflict in our more than forty-year history.†   (source)
  • Their fear of the guards, of the massacre they had so long awaited, was gone, dispersed by the roar and muscle of the bomber.†   (source)
  • There is nothing I wouldn't do for my country—no sacrifice too great to keep my people alive and out of slavery, to keep another massacre from happening."†   (source)
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.†   (source)
  • This rumor was soon replaced by letters brought by people whose lives the rebels had spared during their massacre in Sumbuya.†   (source)
  • Here's a small sample of emails or messages I've seen from friends or family: From right-wing radio talker Alex Jones on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, a documentary about the "unanswered question" of the terrorist attacks, suggesting that the U.S. government played a role in the massacre of its own people.†   (source)
  • Only three entries really caught my attention: the Romanian Varacolaci, a powerful undead being who could appear as a beautiful, pale-skinned human, the Slovak Nelapsi, a creature so strong and fast it could massacre an entire village in the single hour after midnight, and one other, the Stregoni benefici. could massacre an entire village in the single hour after midnight, and one other, the Stregoni benefici.†   (source)
  • His guys would have gunned down both me and Gulab and then, minus their beloved commander in chief, probably would have massacred the entire village, including the kids.†   (source)
  • There were slave-auction posters from New Orleans in 1850, speaking of healthy wenches and strong bucks; old color prints celebrating the massacre of an entire Indian village down to the last baby; a poster of a naked woman with parts of her body labeled choice, prime, or chuck, as in a butcher shop.†   (source)
  • Given all the signs that a massacre had been imminent, it seems likely that the commanders had been awaiting instruction on whether or not to carry it out, and had wanted to keep the men docile in case the answer was affirmative.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, as if someone was shooting them inside my brain, all the massacres I had seen since the day I was touched by war began flashing in my head.†   (source)
  • She asked the woman in charge of the kitchen—she was known as Iron Pants, a generic Haitian nickname for a tough woman—"What if they came in to massacre us?"†   (source)
  • If Nehemia were truly somehow behind the Champions' murders—and worse, had some feral beast at her command to destroy them—and also just learned about the massacre of her people …. then what better place to punish Adarlan than at the ball, where so many of its royals would be celebrating and unguarded?†   (source)
  • Massacring Hazaras?†   (source)
  • The massacre of the Huguenots.†   (source)
  • In 1987 the army's paramilitaries had massacred scores of voters at polling places, aborting what would have been the first democratic elections in Haiti's history.†   (source)
  • In accordance with the kill-all order, the Japanese massacred all 5,000 Korean captives on Tinian, all of the POWs on Ballale, Wake, and Tarawa, and all but 11 POWs at Palawan.†   (source)
  • The Arawak Indians, welcoming Christopher Columbus with garlands and gifts of fruit, smiling with delight, soon to be massacred, or tied up beneath the beds upon which their women were being raped.†   (source)
  • Riots broke out, crops were burned, Happicuppa cafés were looted, Happicuppa personnel were car-bombed or kidnapped or shot by snipers or beaten to death by mobs; and, on the other side, peasants were massacred by the army.†   (source)
  • In the center of the massacre lay Ajihad, his breastplate rent with numerous gashes, surrounded by five Urgals he had slain.†   (source)
  • He went through the small square by the station and he saw the fritter stands piled one on top of the other and he could find no trace of the massacre.†   (source)
  • Not at this massacre scene.†   (source)
  • Turns out it was the night of the massacre when Trujillo had decreed that all black Haitians on our side of the island would be executed by dawn.†   (source)
  • To calm myself, I fantasized the impossible: I imagined the big wolves catching up to Laurent in the woods and massacring the indestructible immortal the way they would any normal person.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure which side of her mouth was more ghastly—the living zombie, or the beautiful woman who was amused by massacres.†   (source)
  • He knew he'd been massacred by the oncoming players, capsized and dumped humiliat-ingly on the ground.†   (source)
  • It was a gruesome episode, five men massacred in the Tsim Sha Tsui with the killer leaving his calling card.†   (source)
  • Then Frank and Percy burst into the open and began to massacre every source of fiber they could find.†   (source)
  • There followed a massacre of more than a hundred people, including the foreign minister, the minister for women's affairs, and some senior trade union leaders.†   (source)
  • He's turned the ambush into a massacre.†   (source)
  • He survived the massacre.†   (source)
  • When you're grown up, then you can make up your own mind about religion, which has been responsible for a lot of wars and massacres in his opinion, as well as bigotry and intolerance.†   (source)
  • The move on Dorchester would begin after dark on March 4 and be completed by first light the morning of March 5, the anniversary of the Boston Massacre.†   (source)
  • Did we know, he asked us, that on December 17, 1942, Mr. Eden got up in the House of Commons and gave the complete details of the Nazi plan, already in full operation, to massacre the entire Jewish population of Europe?†   (source)
  • He hopes there will be no sniveling and pants wetting among the passengers, that no one will go berserk and start screaming, and trigger a jittery massacre.†   (source)
  • An add-on a week later stated that "the notorious agente provocateuse Wyoming Knott of Hong Kong in Luna, whose incendiary speech on Monday 13 May had incited the riot that cost the lives of nine brave officers, had not been apprehended in Luna City and had not returned to her usual haunts in Hong Kong in Luna, and was now believed to have died in the massacre she herself set off."†   (source)
  • Let's see, he knew he could count on his Aunt Agnes and Mike Terasigni whose lawn he cut every week in the summer, and Father O'Toole at the rectory (although his mother would massacre him if she knew he had Father O'Toole on the list) and Mr. and Mrs. Thornton who weren't Catholic but always willing to help a good cause, and, of course, Mrs. Mitchell the widow whose errands he did every Saturday morning and Henry Babineau the bachelor with his awful breath that almost knocked you down…†   (source)
  • The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre—as it was affectionately called—was such a hard workout conducted, of course, in February, that it became a thing of legend and an immediate bonding experience.†   (source)
  • "And then we'll discover whether there are enough of us to drive them away," muttered Roran, "or whether they will just massacre us.†   (source)
  • There was a battle at Bunker Hill where the Patriots massacred the British troops before they were driven off, and the Rebels also took Fort Ticonderoga without much of a fight.†   (source)
  • Some Union soldiers avowed a more abstract motive of revenge for Confederate atrocities elsewhere, even the Fort Pillow massacre.†   (source)
  • In spite of devastating and repeated acts of massacre, assassination and extirpation, the huge acts of faith which have marked the new relations between Palestinians and Israelis, Africans and Afrikaners, and the way in which walls have come down in Europe and iron curtains have opened, all this inspires a hope that new possibility can still open up in Ireland as well.†   (source)
  • More important, she was the occasional lover of one Sabri al-Khalifa, leader of the Palestinian terror group Black September, mastermind of the Munich Olympics massacre.†   (source)
  • He did not believe the version of the massacre or the nightmare trip of the train loaded with corpses traveling toward the sea either.†   (source)
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