Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house is in order and there is no blood in Argentina," he told the crowd...
...avoid any shedding of blood, I have given instructions to the army commanders that they will not proceed with repression [firing at the rebel troops] and today we all give thanks to God," said Alfonsin at the Buenos Aires rally...
...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...
INCEST. Drugs. Crime. Fornication. Impotence. Knives. Blood. Interracial...
...film Rashomon, their accounts do not quite measure up with each other. Playwright Brian Friel, who is undergoing an inexplicable vogue among the Harvard thespian set, handles the theme of religion as a divine con game with much less sophistication than Flannery O'Conner did in her novel Wise Blood...