Word: bloodlessness
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...Camp Columbia barracks of the very officers who had overthrown Machado. Firmly and none too politely the sergeants told their superiors they were through. Word traveled fast how easy it was-to the other barracks, to the police, to the rural guard, to the Navy. This was the bloodless "revolt of the sergeants." They held the forts, ships, men, artillery. If it came to a showdown, they held the balance of power. Their leader was straightway made Chief of Staff and Revolutionary Leader of the Armed Forces. He was Top Sergeant Fulgencio Batista, who as a sharp-eyed court stenographer...
...left in the midst of the bloodless quarrel between Denmark and Norway over possession of the Greenland coast north of Scoresby Sound (TIME. June 8. 1931 et seq.}. Denmark-said Norway in effect, defending the rights of Norwegian hunters to settle there-had never fully explored this part of her huge colony. Dr. Koch proceeded systematically to answer that objection by proceeding north from Scoresby Sound, charting as he went...
...emergency abdominal operation on Mrs. Fred M. Zeder, wife of Chrysler Corp.'s famed chief engineer. In a stateroom of the Santa Fe Chief, Mrs. John J. Mitchell, onetime Lolita Armour, whose cure from a congenital malformation of the hip by Vienna's famed ''bloodless surgeon," Dr. Adolph Lorenz, made huge headlines in 1902, waited nervously for the train to take her from Chicago to her summer home in Santa Barbara, Calif. With her were a Negro nurse, a quantity of milk, a newly adopted son aged five months. In the corridor stood Husband Mitchell, discovered...
...Siamese are a gentle people. Like the rest of the world they have their political difficulties, but nobody ever gets shot. The first of recent Siamese crises occurred a year ago when a bloodless revolution shook dozens of intelligent, inbred Siamese princes out of soft government jobs but left purblind little King Prajadhipok a constitutional monarch. Next Siamese crisis occurred last April when King Prajadhipok suddenly grew nervous at the increasing "Communism" of his first Cabinet, fired the lot of them. "Premier" Laung Pravit left hastily for France and a group of staid conservatives took his place. Again there were...
Possibly Torquemada is too real and lusty a term to apply to a society dominated by forces so complacent and so suburban. The nexus that binds these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...