Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the French Congo's 15,000 Matswanists either abstain from voting in elections or vote for the dead Matswa. Particularly nettled by such tactics is the Abbe Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Congo Republic, because the Matswanists are of his own tribe-the Lari. Since the Congo recently became self-governing, there have been frequent-clashes between Matswanists and other Lari tribesmen. The Matswanists were stoned; their homes were burned. Driven out of their own countryside, 2,500 Matswanist refugees squatted in a suburb of the capital of Brazzaville and refused to be evacuated...
...makes one further appearance, in defiance of tradition. When Seyton informs Macbeth of her suicide, Quintero, acquiescing to Robards' request, lets Macbeth exit and re-enter with his dead wife in his arms before delivering his "She should have died hereafter" soliloquy...
Class Dismissed. Even as Kassem spoke, the Iraqi army was quelling bloody street fighting between Turks and Kurds in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to the north. Before the rioting was over, some 30 Iraqi were dead, 100 wounded, and large numbers of soldiers had deserted their units to help out the pro-Communist Kurds. Alarmed by the defections, Kassem arrested six officers and 250 men, and sorrowfully took a more painful step. He ordered 800 reserve officers-an entire graduating class commissioned by Kassem himself last April-out of uniform and back to civilian life. The reason: they...
...professor, who has for many years been a very eminent doctor, dreams of confrontations with the people he has left for dead; and he keynotes the film with the statement that "in our relations with other people, we mainly criticize them...
...world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count in Japan, found herself pregnant, and back in England, got news that her husband was dead...