Word: stains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took months to bring the guardsmen to trial. And even then, most observers believed the case would eventually be dismissed, chalked up as another stain on the Salvadoran government's already soiled human rights record. But Monday, a judge in Zacatecoluca found that the soldiers had "participated in the crime" of aggravated assault. Unless the guardsmen successfully appeal the decision--an unlikely event--they will go to jail for their crimes...
...could see one of my team members, then none. Then a figure appeared in a clearing 15 yds. away, wearing a red armband, firing at a target I could not see. I shot, heard the figure say "Eccch, you got me," in a conversational tone and saw a yellow stain from my pellet on his shirt. Feeling quick and clever, I ran on in a crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player and I caught sight of each other and began to shoot. The pistols made phutt, phutt noises. I could...
Steadily, malignantly, the ugly stain of war spread over the leaden South Atlantic last week. Sophisticated missiles streaked across the waves, while less visible but no less deadly computer-assisted torpedoes coursed through the icy waters. Before the week was over, each side had lost a proud warship to these lethal new engines of destruction. For the first time, the military forces of Britain and Argentina had mauled each other on the high seas in the bizarre battle for possession of the remote, inhospitable Falkland Islands. Then, as if stunned by the enormity of their actions, the adversaries momentarily drew...
...hunting licenses," said the New Jersey Democrat. He quoted the Lord's Prayer ("Lead us not into temptation") and volunteered that "God Almighty had something to do with all of this." And then he resigned. "I leave in good spirits, good heart and strong resolve. I feel no stain. I've been strengthened...
...wide acceptance. Scrutiny of the size, shape and distribution of blood spatters tells much about the location and position of a person Involved in a crime and thus may dispute a defendant's version of what happened. Blood that travels at an angle, for example, leaves an elliptical stain. Consultant Herbert Leon MacDonell, 53, of Corning, N.Y., the leading expert, is now sought out in more than 100 homicide cases a year. At the trial of Jean Harris last year he tried to persuade the jury-unsuccessfully-that blood marks jibed with Harris' claim that the shooting...