Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early morning mist had slicked the 8,366-mile road course and added to the possibilities of bloodshed, but in the end there were only a few crashes and minor injuries, and the high speeds killed only the chances of the favored Italian entries. The sleek, swift Ferraris and Maseratis...
For years Dictator Francisco Franco's most powerful weapon in preventing revolt was the memory of the 1936-39 civil war in which a million Spaniards were killed-twice as many as in the American Civil War. Spaniards might be plagued by inflation, corruption, heavy-handed authority and inefficiency...
The troubled world of the 20th century can boast no better-mannered or more enduring dictatorship than that of Portugal's ascetic, self-effacing Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. After about 21 years of would-be democracy, characterized largely by repeated bloodshed, revolution, and 40-odd changes of government, the...
Hungary Prevented. Stefan Wyszynski was in Rome last week to get, among other things, the cardinal's red hat that was awarded him in absentia in 1953, for he had been unable to pick it up in person. The chief reason: for three years, until last October, Wyszynski was...
Within a few days of the election, Wyszynski had another chance to stave off disaster. A group of students in a college near Warsaw decided to stage a march on the Russian embassy, gathering support as they went along. It was 2 a.m. when the cardinal awoke to find a...