Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.N. correspondents had never seen Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy so angry as he was last week. "You mouth this nonsense in the hope your misguided subjects will thereby be deceived and will continue to remain supine while you lead them and the world into more bloodshed and destruction," he...
". . . I do admit that there have been instances of bloodshed where many prisoners of war have been killed and wounded by U.N. forces. I can assure you that in the future the prisoners of war can expect humane treatment in this camp. . .
Dodd stood little chance of getting his command back. What would happen to General Colson, who had given the Reds so handsome a propaganda weapon with his strange acknowledgment of "instances of bloodshed," was not yet known.
That was an interesting and snappy resume of revolutionary Latin America. However, don't you think you simplified the situation in Costa Rica too much: "A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart." What was all the uproar in San José in 1948, of which...
Winston Churchill was at dinner when he heard the news. He ordered the R.A.F. to speed Sir Hugh to Colombo: "Spare nothing-get a plane in the air at once!" Churchill and the British had cause to be grateful to Prime Minister Senanayake. Though in 1915 he had been jailed...