Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what set off the army explosion was an infamous military blunder. After the long-drawn-out bloodbath of Verdun, an ambitious new commander in chief, General Robert Nivelle, staked his career on a decisive punch through the German lines which, he implied, would end the war in weeks. The fanfare and prepara-:ions were so grand that the Germans mew all about it in advance. Nivelle knew they knew it, but he went ahead anyway. And from April 16 to May 9, 1917, French troops flung themselves against the Germans' barbed wire, entrenched machine guns and presighted artillery until...
...uncontrollable in their fury. Prison officials pleaded with them not to attack the cell block. Instead, the guards mutinied. "Let's go, let's kill these dogs," cried a guard, and nearly 100 men charged the cellblock, bayoneting and shooting the massed prisoners. When the twelve-hour bloodbath ended, the toll stood at nine guards and 15 prisoners dead, another 25 wounded...
...professor lasts 101 minutes, to be exact, and many of them will assuredly provide mercurochromatic relief for the screaming little monsters who habitually take a Saturday afternoon bloodbath. But while the children are goggling, their parents will be giggling-especially if they happen to have read the tall tale by Jules Verne from which the film is taken. Less than six decades after the author's death, his fantasies of the future read like parodies of the past, and Director Irwin Allen wisely plays for parody what he cannot turn to thrills. He laughs up his gasbag...
...Gaulle even more than they hate the Moslems. But it is also a tacit admission that Algérie Française is dead, and that the S.A.O. terror campaign, which slew an average of 1,000 Moslems a month, failed of its major purpose-to incite a racial bloodbath in Algeria that would force the French army to defy De Gaulle and come in on the side of the Europeans...
...what the future may bring. The daily slaughter of Moslem men. women and children by ruthless S.A.O. gunmen continues; so far, the Moslems have not massively retaliated. But after the July 1 referendum, which is certain to be won by Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems, a bloodbath is feared. Said a refugee: "We heard reports that on the day after referendum, Moslems will sweep into the European parts of Algiers and kill everyone." So great is the exit rush that even the S.A.O. has backed down from its unenforceable order that no European can leave Algeria without S.A.O...