Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blow, this one in a setting familiar to many Americans. At the height of the Christmas rush, a bomb ripped through Harrods department store in London, killing at least five and injuring 91. Police suspected the Irish Republican Army. Even before last week's attacks, 1983 was "the bloodiest year for terrorism on record," according to Brian Jenkins, director of research on terrorism for the Rand Corp...
Indeed they were. The Grenadians had lived through the intrigue and excitement of a Marxist revolution and experienced one of the bloodiest days in the tiny island's history when then" popular leader, Maurice Bishop, and more than 100 citizens were gunned down by renegade leftist radicals on Oct. 19. They had fearfully endured a round-the-clock curfew imposed by an undisciplined military regime that issued orders to kill any violators. They had huddled in their houses after the American invaders had jolted them awake in a furious predawn assault...
...suicide strike was carried out by a main driving a truck packed with a ton of explosives. It was the bloodiest attack against the U.S. military since Vietnam...
...violent summer of 1967, Detroit became the scene of the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history. At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested. Some 5,000 people were homeless (the vast majority Negro), while 1,300 buildings had been reduced to mounds of ashes and bricks and 2,700 businesses sacked. Damage estimates reached $500 million. The riot surpassed those that had preceded it in the summers of 1964 and 1965 and 1966 in a more fundamental way. For here...
...time to come in the U.S., that word will not be primarily identified with the plain upon which ancient Athens nurtured philosophy and democracy. Nor will it stand for the bucolic little town that gave its name to a turreted prison, mislabeled a "correctional facility." Attica will evoke the bloodiest prison rebellion in U.S. history...