Word: holocaust
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...British-and American-owned movie theaters were set afire. Barclays Bank and several British-run clothing stores went up in flames. The sacrosanct Turf Club was invaded, its furnishings smashed, its building set afire, its precious liquor spilled. Even famed Shepheard's Hotel was swept up in the holocaust...
...something for a change, instead of just talking about it. Better a Watch on the Rhine than holocaust on the Hudson, or a massacre on the Missouri...
...strike and an artillery barrage. For 18 hours U.S. planes rained rockets, explosive bombs and napalm fire bombs on the area in front of Barrow's outfit. First scores, then hundreds, then thousands of Red soldiers were seen running from their place of ambush. When the holocaust was over, Barrow's company and the marines behind them walked through the wreckage...
Wasserman had survived the Nazi holocaust in Europe, but had lost his entire family. He came to the U.S. in 1946, and for four years he and his wife struggled to retain some form of economic security. Six weeks ago they had opened that little jewelry shop...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...