Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...testified to the U.N.'s growing clout. Of the 15 members, 13 sent heads of government; two grabbed the spotlight. Russian President Boris Yeltsin was trying to shed his image as a hard-drinking oaf. Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng was trying to shed his pariah status as the Butcher of Beijing...
...support. For instance, in a chart intended to show how the number of "liberal democracies" on earth has grown, he includes Singapore, where there are laws against chewing gum and failing to flush public toilets; Sri Lanka, where murderous ethnic and religious violence continues nonstop; and Colombia, where narcoterrorists butcher judges and parliamentarians in broad daylight...
...precisely how many people observe Kwanzaa, but its biggest boosters are middle-class professionals seeking to give their children a sense of black pride. "My children grew up in a fairly white community, and that motivated me to teach them the value of the African-American heritage," says Vickie Butcher, 50, a lawyer in El Cajon, Calif., who celebrates with her physician husband and their five children. "We sit in a circle, and every person talks about that day's principle," she says. "The creating and sharing is real quality time...
From France to the Soviet Union, Poland to Czechoslovakia, underground movements harried the Germans -- sometimes at a horrendous cost. On May 27, 1942, two Czechoslovak agents based in London who had been parachuted into Czechoslovakia five months earlier were activated. Their target: Reinhard Heydrich, "the Butcher of Prague," the SS Obergruppenfuhrer who was a major organizer of the Holocaust that was engulfing Europe's Jews. The Czechoslovaks killed Heydrich in a bomb attack as he drove into Prague, but the retribution was terrible: the Nazis murdered 1,300 Czechoslovaks immediately; 3,000 Jews were sent to Poland to be killed...
...tests say they are needed for such workers as armed security guards, one of the few kinds of employees that Target subjects to the examination. "When we entrust individuals with weapons to protect the public, I think it's important to assess their emotional stability," says James Butcher, a psychology professor at the University of Minnesota who helped revise the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. An earlier version of that test provided many of the questions that were asked of Soroka. The revised version eliminates some of the inquiries about religion and sexuality...