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Word: bougainvillean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...spiral of bloodletting, which began in November, escalated last week, when landowners raided a mining camp, killing four people and setting houses ablaze. An angry mob from the settlement retaliated by slaughtering a Bougainvillean woman and her baby and torching her home. So far 39 have died in the dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPUA NEW GUINEA Blood and Copper | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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