Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxlm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!whuxlm!mag From: mag@whuxlm.UUCP (Gray Michael A) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <789@whuxlm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 07:37:24 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxlm.789 Posted: Wed Jul 10 07:37:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:17:20 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax.UUCP> <518@hou2g.UUCP>, <1072@ihuxb.UUCP> <925@houxf.UUCP> <1226@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.followup:5082 net.flame:11063 > > Don't credit Hitler with this policy, the Romans instituted it much earlier > > and that's how we got the word "decimate". > > Dave Peak > > My understanding of "decimation" was that it was a process whereby people > were lined up and counted and every 10th person was killed. Does anybody > know for sure which meaning is the correct one? > -- > Sophie Quigley Sophie wins. Mike Gray, whuxlm!mag