Word: bloodlessness
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...Algeria should have been holding the concluding round of parliamentary elections, proving that it could move peacefully from one-party socialist rule to a pluralist state, the country's military was putting the finishing touches on a bloodless coup d'etat. Last Thursday, just five days after the army forced the resignation of President Chadli Bendjedid, provoking the dissolution of parliament and cancellation of the elections that had promised to hand Muslim fundamentalists a legislative majority, Mohammed Boudiaf was sworn in as head of a military-backed, five-member Council of State. Boudiaf has splendid credentials -- he is nonpartisan...
...nothing of monotony. In even the most sensational court cases, cross- examination draws out a story from witnesses in eyedropper doses. Expert testimony tends to be bloodless. The lacy bra admitted into evidence in Smith's trial seems less provocative when the garment is discussed by the "bodily fluids and tissue technician" of the Palm Beach sheriff's department...
...Faith is often a matter of given truths and absolute beliefs, but once it becomes entangled in law and politics, its certainties begin to blur. One of the primary fears of the separationists is that if government gets too involved with religion, the result will resemble the bloodless, lifeless state-backed churches in Europe. Many of the supporters of the church-state wall fear that politicians, bent on compromise more than conversion, would try to invent some inoffensive brand of faith -- the creche encircled by reindeer hauling Santa's sleigh. "What you are tending to see is a new secular...
During construction, incredulous that an adequate building could be pasted on the unlovely backside of the Fogg, we watched Gwathmey's sleek, even glib, three-story pastiche of high-tech and nostalgia emerge. We were grateful for its glancing homage to LeCorbusier and relieved, perhaps, that it was less bloodless than the original drawings...
...principle in the trenches. His views on the death penalty, for instance, were shaped by the lessons he learned defending people charged with murder. He is the only one to have put his own life at risk by trying volatile cases in the segregated South. "There was nothing bloodless about his decisions," says Professor A.E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia Law School. "He identified with the little people in a way that few Justices...