Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LONDON: Britons woke up Friday with Tony Blair and the Labour Party firmly in charge, after dealing the Tories their largest electoral defeat since 1832. Labour, with 43.1 percent of the vote, won 419 seats in Parliament, 179 more seats than all other parties combined. That electoral bloodbath left the Tories with only 165 members and many of its top leaders not only out of power but without even seats in parliament. A defeated John Major announced that he would step down as Conservative Party leader. "When the curtain falls, it's time to get off the stage," he said...
...Getting our jitters out" and "warming up" translated into nothing more than a 7-2 Crimson bloodbath by the women...
...Congress for any piece of legislation this year. He promised to "put a tremendous amount of his own time into the issue," Feingold says. And he talked seriously about how to apply pressure to the bill's Republican opponents in Congress without turning the effort into a partisan bloodbath. "We have to be very diplomatic and very clear that both sides are going to have to give," Clinton told his guests...
...racist murderer of a grandfather from being gassed by the state of Mississippi, has at its heart such a confrontation. The book's 676 pages tease with the tactics of time-bomb suspense, notably in the figure of a hovering assassin who threatens grandfather Sam with a family bloodbath if he reveals that the assassin was guilty of the crime for which Sam is to be executed. But The Chamber is really a tale of love and forgiveness, a suturing of wounds across three generations...
...Tutsi government acceded to international pressure and held the country's first multiparty presidential elections. Hutu turned out in force and elected their first head of state, Melchior Ndadaye. Four months later, elements of the Tutsi military reacted by launching a coup, killing Ndadaye and triggering a bloodbath in which some 50,000 Hutu and Tutsi were slain...