Word: bloodiest
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...party affiliation aside to work on issues such as health care, taxes and the budget. Before that, at the age of 19, after the U.S. was drawn into World War II, John enlisted in the Marine Corps. He had to fight, among other places, in one of the bloodiest battles in Guadalcanal. He then went back to college, and the Korean conflict broke out. He could have avoided having to serve his country again--but instead chose to serve as an officer commanding a rifle company. I have had many occasions to say, "I am so impressed, John, by what...
Mehta, an Indian-born Canadian director, has yet again challenged India's political conservatives. Unlike Fire, which directly criticizes India's societal hypocrisy, Earth shifts a fair amount of the blame onto the ignorance of the paternalistic British imperialists, who ended up causing one of the 20th century's bloodiest ethnic wars in their attempt to control the fate of the Indian people and their government. Before the partition takes place, Lenny, despite being forced by polio to wear a leg brace, enjoys a happy childhood playing under the care of her nanny Shanta (Nandita Das). Shanta is a beautiful...
...fact that the boys who fired 600 rounds at their teachers and fellow students had nurtured their violent revenge fantasies, at least in part, playing splatter games like Doom and Quake. But on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Quake III, the newest, bloodiest version, was on display, the only question on these guys' minds was "When can I play...
...been here before, and it's never pretty. The pictures on TV -- SWAT teams running into the schools, hysterical students running out -- have been repeated six times in the past 18 months. And now a seventh, the bloodiest of all: Littleton, Colo., just southwest of Denver, where three young men dressed in fatigues stormed into Columbine High School. As many as 25 students may now be dead, as well as two of the suspects, and at least 18 people are injured. A number of students were held in the building for hours. Some used their cell phones to tell their...
...agents are in pursuit. The enemy in this case is a 41-year-old Goldfinger with a bank account of $100 million to $300 million, a far-flung network of cohorts and a fiery hatred for the U.S., which he badly wants out of Saudi Arabia, his homeland. The bloodiest round of this new war came on Aug. 7 when bin Laden's agents allegedly bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, 12 of them Americans...