Word: slain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospitals and dispensaries, and tripled the number of native schools (though only one Somali in 100 can read and write). Somali tribesmen, mindful of their hatred of the Mussolini colonial era, at first conducted a war of terrorism against the territory's Italians, killing more Europeans than were slain in Kenya's Mau Mau revolt. But tribesmen have been won over by Italy's patience and good will. "Somalis will always be grateful to Italy," said Aden Abdullah. Last week, with its ten-year trusteeship term half over, Italy turned over all legislative power to an elected...
...time the paper ran through a trust fund left by its slain publisher, circulation had dived from 55,000 to fewer than 20,000, and wealthy Moroccans would lend no money. Last week Maroc-Presse tasted the bitter fruit of its victory: the paper that bombs could not intimidate folded under the crush of its deficit...
...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...
...over Venezuela. Students wrecked laboratories and stoned policemen. Medical students at the National University in Caracas, who also work as hospital interns, spread word of wards crowded with wounded youngsters. At one point they ran up on a flagpole what they said was the bloody dress of the slain girl. The police cracked down by arresting teenagers, teachers and protesting parents...
...crowned-"but shall we wear these glories for a day?" He sends two little princes, his nephews, to a strangling bed, and sheds Buckingham as coldly as last season's skin ("None are for me/That look into me with considerate eye"). The rebellions begin, and Richard is slain at last on Bosworth Field...