Word: bathed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonial Office had alleged, and pointed out that not one single European was killed. "When the time came to prepare the justification for government policy," said the report, "the murder plot began to play a larger part." Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd used the prospects of a "blood bath" against Europeans as excuse for cracking down on Nyasaland's black African National Congress...
...Stoky, doting father that he was, could not get enough of his children. The 1955 divorce settlement gave him liberal rights, and he took every advantage of them. He arranged his Fifth Avenue apartment for the boys, gave each his own room and bath (they slept in the same room at Gloria's), a large playroom, and bikes. He talked of nothing save his boys and his music ("And," says a friend, "he was a bore about both"). He meticulously arranged their diets (insisting on orange juice freshly squeezed at the table just before drinking, no earlier), evolved...
...years ago, Emperor Napoleon III defeated the Austrians at Solferino alongside Sardinia's little Victor Emmanuel II, who two years later became the first king of a united Italy. Off went the imperial message to Paris-"Great battle, great victory!"-though it had been such a blood bath that a Swiss traveler, Henri Dunant, shocked by the lack of medical facilities, hastily set up the beginnings of what became the International Red Cross. Like most European reminders of past alliances, this 19th century campaign had its awkward details (Napoleon III had then grabbed Nice and Savoy for himself...
Polished Gentleman. In Giugliano, Italy, Antonio Pollastro charged his two sons with kidnaping and abusive treatment after they dragged him outside his home, gave him an unrequested hot bath, shave and haircut...
Junior and intermediate offspring of the Class of '34 will have a separate program beginning at 9:30 a.m., when buses leave for Manchester Bath and Tennis Club. After swimming and picnicking at Manchester, juniors and intermediates will return to Cambridge for supper, then entertainment in the Union for juniors and movies at the Geographical Institute for intermediates...