Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To Negroes: "I'm concerned about these demonstrations. I think they go beyond information, beyond protest, and they get into a very bad situation where you get violence, and I think the cause of advancing equal opportunities only loses. So I have warned against demonstrations which could lead to...
Tinkers' carts still creak along country roads; city air is as pure as Connemara spring water. Off the Aran Islands, fishermen still go out in currachs, their ancient coracles, and never learn to swim because they know death takes longer if they do. Ireland has in abundance the qualities...
Fire from the Left. As Watt notes, a great army is not demoralized in a day, nor for purely military reasons. The politicians hated the generals, the generals hated the politicians, and the politicians themselves were divided behind the faqade of a coalition government. The extreme French left, for example...
After four days of bloodshed, the rioting finally petered out, and cautious United Nations troops, who had not dared intervene while the fighting was at its height, moved in and totted up the frightful cost. The toll: at least 70 dead, and scores injured.
Road to Secession. At first Garrison was hated almost as much in the North by a people content to let the South keep its "peculiar institution." He was heckled when he spoke, and sometimes mobbed. But when the South, 25 years before the Civil War, began to make arbitrary arrests...