Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them Negroes, were under 21 years old. Bullets slew 25 of the victims. Unknown assailants took the lives of eight; nine were slain by private citizens; police killed 13. Ten died in fires or from inhaling smoke and three from other causes. In contrast with last summer's bloodbath, not one killing was blamed on the National Guard or the federal troops who were called into the cities...
Boston University knocked Harvard out of the ECAC hockey tournament with a bruising 6-3 win at Watson Rink last night. The villains of the night were referees Bob Barry and Walter Fitzgerald, who bovinely allowed the hard-hitting game to degenerate into a bloodbath, while the heroine for the victorious Terriers had to be Lady Luck, who was responsible for a Crimson-controlled first period showing up on the scoreboard as a 3-0 Terrier lead...
...crucial meet this Saturday, Harvard's all-winning indoor track team clashes with Yale and Princeton in the annual Big Three bloodbath...
...last Saturday became tragic: the military treated anti-war resistance just as they would have handled common criminals. Had they arrested demonstrators in a firm but orderly fashion, instead of clubbing them before dragging them to the paddywagons, the violence would have been contained. Instead of provoking a bloodbath, the U.S. Marshals could have confronted each of the demonstrators individually, told him that he was under arrest for trespassing and lead him away. Certainly by nightfall, when most of the press had left, the large majority of the demonstrators would have preferred this to being beaten. Each side felt...
...implacable fate; so is Nat Turner. But here Styron makes his own departure. In Melville, Hawthorne and Twain, there is always at least a memory of innocence. Not for Nat: for him there is no innocence, no redemption. From the corruptions of childhood, he acts out his damnation. His bloodbath is a black Mass; in Camus' words, he is "a saint without...