Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tanks and armored cars clattered along the highways; planes ripped through the skies. Buenos Aires' luxury shops hastily slammed their iron shutters as crowds of excited people rushed into the streets. For a few breathless hours last week it seemed that the long-simmering military revolt against Juan Per...
"In the old days," sighed Athens Tavernkeeper Costa Pandelidis, "elections were elections. There were free drinks. There were bands and songs and dancing. There was bloodshed. The walls were plastered with pictures of candidates. This year the government has forbidden posters and forbidden outdoor meetings. This is not an election...
When an Indian from one of the 30 Guajiro tribes (each named for an animal) kills an Indian from another, the blood money, in goats or cattle, may run to high figures. The offended tribe can demand payment for 1) the original bloodshed, 2) the victim's agony before...
Albizu organized a following, the Nationalist Party, with about 1,000 members. Nothing he undertook succeeded; his plans for a civil disobedience campaign and the enrolling of a liberation army died for lack of support. Still Albizu, arrogant but a little absurd with his full mustache, uncontrolled hair and black...
*When the New York Times interpreted these remarks as a charge that the present cease-fire talks constitute appeasement, MacArthur's aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, shot out a fast correction from the Waldorf-Astoria. Said he: MacArthur had made it clear, even when urging an expanded attack on...