Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many as 2,746 Cubans at a rate of 100 a month. "We are afraid that these men being returned to Cuba will be tortured," said Dale Schwartz, an Atlanta attorney who has been fighting to block the deportation of the prisoners. "As for whether it will be a bloodbath, we don't know. There's really no way of monitoring that sort of thing in Cuba...
...spring after the quadrennial electoral bloodbath is traditionally a quiet time in the political world, but Bay State politicos are already gearing up for the next round...
...slump since the Great Depression, American families are being driven from their land in growing numbers at a time when much of the rest of the U.S. is enjoying prosperity. Some 20,000 farms have been auctioned off since 1981, and the toll is rising. "There will be a bloodbath of farm foreclosures this year," says Washington Economist John Schnittker, a former Under Secretary of Agriculture...
...nightmare is never-ending. First there was the murderous U.S. "sideshow" to the Vietnam War that took the form of B-52 raids on innocent civilians in the early 1970s. When the U.S. left Indochina in 1975, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot took over and instituted a bloodbath in the name of one of the most insane ideologies to come to the face of the earth. And their bloody rule gave way in 1978 to that of the Vietnamese, who are determined to fight "to the last Cambodian" to realize their long-sought aim of dominion over...
WHEN INDIAN CITIES began to burn a couple of weeks ago, a bloodbath appeared inevitable. National reaction to Indira Gandhi's murder seemed to ignite a textbook Third World crisis, complete with factional strife, religious fanaticism, and widespread, crushing poverty...