Word: hecatomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria did he show strain or emotion. "It should be known," said he, "that in four years in Algeria about 1,500 French civilians have been killed. More than 10,000 Moslems, men, women and children, have been massacred by the rebels-almost always by throat-cutting. What a hecatomb that country would know if we were stupid or cowardly enough to abandon...
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