Word: bloodbath
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Investors tried to put the bloodbath in perspective. While severe, it still left the Dow 212 points above what it was at the start of 1986 and a remarkable 1000 points above its level in August 1982, when the bull market started. Quantitatively, it was the largest falloff ever, but the 4.6% drop in share values on Thursday was nowhere near the chilling 12.8% plunge of the Great Crash...
...their action had remotely advanced any Palestinian political aims, which include the recovery of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They had failed to spring their allies from prison in Larnaca or even to reach Cyprus themselves, and their murderous misadventure in Karachi had turned into a bloodbath that antagonized Pakistan, a Muslim country that has always been sympathetic to the Palestinians' demands...
Washington's fear of a bloodbath was not unfounded. Early Monday morning a crowd of Marcos supporters armed with batons and tear gas moved toward Camp Crame, where the reformers were gathered. Over transistor radios, Marcos was ! heard vowing, "We'll wipe them out. It is obvious they are committing a rebellion." And over Radio Veritas came Enrile's reply, "I am not going to surrender...
Last season, the Crimson's ECAC quarterfinal matchup with Colgate turned into a bloodbath when Harvard, which took the first game, 4-2, took a commanding 5-1 lead in the second game of the series...
Relatively calm, that is, compared to the bloodbath that ensued the following evening, as 2650 viewers were privy to a Red Raider clinic on dirty play that Crimson Coach Bill Cleary termed a "bizarre scene...