Word: bloodiest
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...brute realities of his steel mills, where men toiled 12-hour days, seven days a week. If Carnegie fancied himself the friend of the workingman, he had to face the ultimate comeuppance in 1892 when his associate Henry Clay Frick brutally suppressed striking workers in Homestead, Pa., in the bloodiest clash in U.S. labor history...
BELFAST: They may call themselves the Real IRA, but is this a real cease-fire? The Republican splinter group responsible for Saturday's horrific bomb attack in Omagh, the bloodiest in Northern Ireland's recent history, announced a "suspension" of their campaign of violence Wednesday. The reason? Widespread public anger and an appeal from Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, according to the Real IRA's statement published in the Belfast Irish News. The real reason? If they hadn't said something, Ahern was threatening to crack down on the group's Dublin HQ. Besides, there's a more important public...
...serious condition after a bull trampled on his head; a third was gored in the leg by a bull that had rid himself of his rubber horn protectors. Add to that the casualty list of head and jaw injuries earlier in the week, and you have one of the bloodiest San Fermins since -- well, since the last life was claimed...
From Gettysburg, head south to Antietam National Battlefield at Sharpsburg, where soldiers fought on what was the bloodiest day of the Civil War. After a couple of hours' tour, continue to Harpers Ferry, site of abolitionist John Brown's notorious raid on the U.S. arsenal. Harpers Ferry, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, is a great place for family outdoor activities like canoeing, rafting and hiking. At the Historical Park, visit the restored, pre-Civil War Lower Town, with its many living-history demonstrations. Plan to stay at the historic Hilltop House, a century-old stone...
...bloodiest attack yet on foreigners in Egypt coincides with the opening of a major international tourism conference in London and comes days after two men responsible for the September slaying of nine tourists in Cairo were sentenced to death...