Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only two months after French officials proclaimed the rebellion in Algeria "militarily finished," the three-year-old war passed through its bloodiest week. In five separate engagements, the French killed 427 rebels. The week's returns from the shambles brought the February total up to 3,900-more than the total U.S. dead in six months of fighting on Guadalcanal. But French casualties were higher than ever before. In February, Paris reported, France lost 297 men, killed in action, compared to 203 a year...
...most theatergoers last week it was a choice between a good production of Shakespeare's bloodiest and an excellent evening of Menotti. Next week it will be Orpheus and Patience on one hand and selected O'Neill on the other. Many who would like to attend all the productions will only see two or three of them, and each show will cut into the other's ticket sales. But this is nothing: last spring theatrical activities vacillated between a choke of four and five shows one weekend and none the next, forcing an alternate glut and fast on theatergoers...
...been born for a bright tomorrow, despite some drawbacks, e.g., one of Vladimir's vacations was spoiled a little by shop talk about executions. After Evdokia and Vladimir were married in 1940, they were an enviable and well-adjusted husband-and-wife team in the world's bloodiest police force. What went wrong with their lives? Posted to the Soviet embassy in Canberra, the Petrovs never had it so good. With his pay as colonel in the MVD-plus her pay as captain-they made $18,550, more than the salary of the Australian Prime Minister...
Largely obscured by more dramatic conflicts in Europe, Africa and Asia, one of history's bloodiest struggles goes silently on in Colombia. In the eight-year-old strife between the Colombian army and anti-government guerrillas, the death toll, according to President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, tops 100,000-three times greater than battle deaths among U.S. forces in Korea-in a country with a population of only 13 million. Last week TIME correspondent Piero Saporiti toured the front lines of this almost-forgotten battleground. His report...
Education, another prescription, is also insufficient, Sorokin claimed. Although the number of scientific and technological discoveries have been more numerous in this century than in any other, this has also been the "bloodiest" century of any which the research center studied...