Word: bloodlessness
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...from shareholders in the movie industry, Zanuck reasoned that they were ready for a proxy fight. A Zanuck-Skouras entente was fashioned by Attorney Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer, who hovered over the decisive board meeting with fistfuls of victory proclamations. "We sought to achieve our objective by bloodless surgery," Nizer said...
...Kong Le retreated to the strategic Plaine des Jarres, joining forces with the Pathet Lao. The Soviet Union poured in supplies by air, and Communist North Viet Nam contributed tough guerrilla cadres. When Phoumi's army advanced, it was badly beaten in a series of noisy but largely bloodless battles. Phoumi got a breathing space when, in the spring of 1961, the government eagerly agreed to a ceasefire...
...colleges that now skim the top i% of U.S. high school seniors go on to make it the top i%? Harvard's former Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender recently warned that strictly academic standards, neglecting "passion, fire, warmth, goodness, feeling, color, humanity, eccentric individuality," may well produce "bloodless" Harvard students. Other admissions men are trying hard to discount test scores, which because they are so universally high are less useful for making distinctions. Now they assay "nonintellectual" (or nonrational) qualities, earnestly searching for "selflessness" or "sterling character" or signs that "he's more...
...Russian T-54 tanks, drove northward toward Aleppo. Since it was clear that no help was coming from Cairo, the rebels hastily submitted, and, even before the armored column reached Aleppo's outskirts, the garrison humbly informed Damascus it was obeying orders and confining itself to barracks. Relatively bloodless though it was, the Aleppo revolt nevertheless made history of a sort-it was Syria's second in a week, its eighth in 13 years and, finally, the only military revolt in Syria that has ever failed...
...bloodless battle on the heights can resume along the obscure, 2,500-mile frontier between the two giant lands of Asia. From April to October, Chinese mountain troops will prowl the lofty boundary, seeking new undefended peaks or valleys on which to plant the flag of Peking. Near by, Gurkhas and turbaned Sikhs will try to head them off. But since it is essentially a struggle of nerves, each side is more likely to stare than to shoot...