Word: bloodedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followers of Mohammed had seized the mosque, using weapons concealed inside 14 coffins. They demanded that the worshipers recognize Mohammed as the long awaited Mahdi (messiah).* At first, the worshipers could not believe any harm could come to them, since it is a precept of Islam that no blood be shed inside a mosque; by nightfall they knew that they were hostages. Blood had already been shed within the mosque; when several guards had tried to arrest Mohammed and his band, they had been killed. Outside the locked doors, Saudi authorities were baffled. The only way to open the doors...
...called short season may yield only a fifth of what is normally reaped. In the entire province, there is only one doctor, a Vietnamese "adviser." Some 500 patients are crammed into the hospital in Kompong Speu, which has only 200 beds. The facility has no laboratory to analyze blood or urine or any means of boiling water. Outside the compound is a cluster of bamboo and palm-leaf huts housing 89 grievously undernourished orphans, whose bloated stomachs and matchstick limbs are signs of severe deficiencies. The staple of their woefully inadequate diet: powdered milk mixed with water trucked in from...
...BLOOD YOU SHED, WHITE FOR THE COLOR OF THEIR BRAINS, AND BLUE FOR THE BLOOD YOU NEVER SEE--an old saying." The cabbie barked and stared ahead, focusing his eyes on nothing...
Steel and Blood...
Other Harvard players named: Mauro Keller-Sarmiento [forward, 2nd team], Billy Blood [goalie, hon. mention...