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Word: bloodshedding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the bloodshed and love goes on downstairs old Mrs. Warren lies abed on the second floor, delivering in her omniscient way, prophecies "Hide under the bed or else get out while you can," she tells young Helen, "and take Dr. Parry with you. You love him." But it is...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Spiral Staircase | 10/19/1956 | See Source »

Proper Admiration. But the string of superb victories looked to some Britons of Marlborough's day like an endless series of bloody shambles. Good Queen Anne began to cry aloud, "Oh, Lord, when will all this dreadful bloodshed cease?" Sarah, fighting desperately to keep the Queen under her thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blacksmith to Blenheim | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

In April 1954, some 2,800 United Auto Workerswalked out of the Kohler Co. in Wisconsin, demanding higher pay and union powers that are more or less Standard throughout industry. In the 28 months since then, the strike has degenerated into the nation's oldest, ugliest major labor dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Boycott | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

At week's end the desperate bus company consented to reduce its fares to the old level. "We hope," said one official, aghast at the violence, "that this will stop some of the bloodshed." Some South Africans drew another lesson from it: the uncontrollable power of savage anger when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Commuters | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

With Syria's President Shukri el Ku-watly, Nasser and Saud sat down to survey the North African bloodshed and Levantine disorder that their intrigue and gold had helped to promote. Outside, in the Cairo streets, the mobs reckoned on only one advantage from their strengthened position: When the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Traps & Transfers | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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