Word: bloodier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Congo River in last month's riots in the Belgian city of Léopoldville, it had been black v. white. In Brazzaville last week it was black v. black, and bloodier. Less than three months after voting for autonomy within the French Community, the new Congo Republic was already learning the perils of being...
...more than four years of war, Algeria had seen no bloodier fighting. Returning to old-style guerrilla tactics (but armed with new automatic weapons), the F.L.N. rebels struck in bands of 30 or less at isolated French outposts, mined the railway line leading from the Sahara oilfields. Trying to seal off the rebels' supply lines from neighboring Tunisia, the French gave as good as they got. The week's estimated casualty toll on both sides: more than...
After all the todo, the reviewers seemed a little let down to discover that The Vikings was, as the New York Times phrased it, just another "Norse opera." In fact, it is one of the bloodier bores of the season, and the only good things to be said for it are that the scenery is nice, and the book, a 1951 breastseller by Edison Marshall, was worse...
...pulling power in Manhattan's East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times out by big Democratic protest votes and near defeat, announced that he would not run for a seventh term. Coudert's withdrawal signaled a bloody primary and a bloodier general election to pick a successor. ¶ Two-term Republican Senator Irving McNeil Ives, 62, one of the Senate handful of steady Eisenhower Republicans, announced that poor health (high blood pressure) bars him from seeking a third term this autumn, † Ives's retirement paved...
...appearance of the names of Alonso and Heliczer may suggest that Audience is attempting not only to fill the i.e. vacuum, but to leech the Advocate, either healing it or killing it by draining away its bloodier contributors. There is not a serious duplication of function, however, for Audience appears to be bent upon being a full-fledged review, not merely a vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards...