Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Led by a hastily formed national front of students, professional men, labor unions and the old political parties, the Sudanese arose barehanded and, in a week of bloodshed, drove the military back to their barracks. By the time it was all over, at least 30 Sudanese had lost their lives...
King & Prophet. Some of the questions were easy enough for a Sunday school class-such as "Who smote a lion and a bear?" (answer: Samson) or "Give the names of two Biblical shepherds, one of whom became a king, the other a prophet" (David and Amos). Others demanded an almost...
Violence in the coal fields was actually diminishing at the time when Pinkerton Agent McParlan, posing as a murderer on the run from Buffalo police, wormed his way into the high councils of the Molly Maguires. It was later charged that McParlan acted as an agent provocateur and deliberately whipped...
Calculated Insults. De Gaulle pursued the same tactics throughout France. He was followed by what Aron calls his "Trojan horse," a column of administrators specially trained in London and Algiers to take over the French government. In southern France, the Communists had seized power in majorities, but De Gaulle'...
At last the British had no choice but to take control of their race-torn little South American colony. After five months of continued violence between 295,000 East Indians, led by Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan, and 190,000 Jagan-hating Negroes, Britain's Governor Sir Richard Luyt announced...