Word: bloodshedding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Bluster. The white man's fate in the new black African nations has not been all that bad. Kenya's Mau Mau terrorism stopped at the first signs that independence would be granted, and the brutal slaughters of the Congo are so far the exception in Africa...
Perhaps I should add that on an impulse I had taken my little boy, thinking--as proved true--that for him the violence and bloodshed would be absorbed easily into that other universe, that shadowy world of myth that already includes Snow White, the Frog King and Little Red Riding...
This year's show had a medieval setting, hardly original but workable enough. One Knight's Stand concerned a schlemiel of a knight named Weritas (hmmph!), who was seeking the hand of fair Tupel' Aura. Her sisters advise against the union because of Weritas' ineptitude, and a group of witches...
View from the Falls. Shastri's compulsion to compromise was better applied in the great January language crisis. In that month, India adopted Hindi (which only 40% of Indians speak) as the nation's official language. Southern Indians - speaking mostly Tamil or Telugu-rose up in a wave...
"Revolution in any country is a matter for that country to deal with," said the President. "It becomes a matter calling for hemispheric action only-repeat, only-when the subject is the establishment of a Communistic dictatorship. We support no single man or any single group of men in the...