Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedom, liberty or democracy-whatever called-its essence is the right and dignity of the individual. To achieve that principle has taken centuries of revolution and bloody battle. In Japan, this principle came so suddenly-and so quietly-that most observers fail to see the scope of the tremendous, bloodless revolution that has been wrought here since the start of the American occupation...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
...Communists took over the Indonesian government in a bloodless coup...
After consulting with their military friends, the party bosses decided not to wait until April. Saturday night, while General Rolón and most of his ministers were attending a wake for the Primate of Paraguay, the insiders ran off a swift and bloodless coup, installed Molas...
Died. Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...