Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double Talk. "I am a dictator, with the people," he explained. "My destiny is to carry out revolutions without bloodshed. The only blood that will be spilled will be that of those who oppose us. No one will be persecuted. We ask only cooperation." Batista charged again that deposed President...
The opening shot of a bullet-pocked adobe wall characterizes this "biography" of Emiliano Zapata, Mexico's peasant revolutionary. Twentieth Century Fox concentrated on the bloodshed and violence of Zapata's rebellion, and although Viva Zapata has captured the force of this brutality, it stops right there.
Brawl to Ritual. Once they had been the center of student life. They were born in the late 18th century, when students, armed with daggers and pikes, still staged a bloody brawl whenever they had a mind to. The purpose of the corporations was to eliminate most of the bloodshed...
Winston Churchill was sailing homeward aboard the Queen Mary when Egypt's mobs swarmed through Cairo, demanding an immediate declaration of war on his nation. The U.S. State Department was leisurely considering, and disliking, Churchill's plea for a token show of U.S. force in Suez. Bloodshed in...
The bloodshed settles nothing, but proves one thing. In its brief life as a new nation, Israel has succeeded against staggering odds in building a modern republic in the sandy squalor of the Middle East. But it has not yet found a way to erase the mutual hatred, extremism and...