Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swampy waters to the east of the Iraqi port city of Basra. The Iraqis' claim that 32,000 Iranians were killed in the fighting was undoubtedly exaggerated. But Lieut. General Mahir Abdel Rashid of the Iraqi Third Army Corps may have accurately described the engagement as "one of the bloodiest battles we've fought in six years...
Even as Chamberlain enjoyed the limelight back in London, Hitler completed plans to violate the treaty by sending his army into Eastern Europe. Chamberlain became a symbol of the pitfalls of diplomacy based solely on trust and goodwill. Winston Churchill was called upon to guide Britain into the bloodiest war in Europe's history...
...attack was the bloodiest since the recent wave of bombings began Sept. 8. Earlier explosions hit a city hall post office, a cafeteria in suburban La Defense, the Pub Renault on the Champs-Elysees Avenue and police headquarters in central Paris...
...township, the comrades still manned most of their barricades. In White City, the section of Soweto where some of the worst bloodshed had occurred, activists refused to let residents go to work. Before the week was over, at least 20 people had been killed by police in the bloodiest confrontation since the current nationwide state of emergency was declared on June...
...history, and like its two more grisly predecessors, it took place in a setting as ordinary and familiar as any in American life. Twenty years ago this month, Charles Whitman climbed a tower on the University of Texas campus at Austin and gunned down 14 people. The bloodiest rampage by a lone gunman on a single day was waged by James Oliver Huberty, who murdered 21 victims, many of them children, in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., in 1984. In the past two decades, random mass slayings have become increasingly common...