Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier's first and bloodiest battle was over. As the succeeding days of struggle for power continued and shifted from the streets to the seats of power, the Nationalists counted their losses: about 100 killed and 400 wounded against 200 killed, 600 wounded for the outgunned and badly beaten Binh Xuyen...
...lightweight championship of the world, and he had his brains unhinged in the process. A small-town scrapper from Cadillac, Mich., Ad Wolgast took the title from Battling Nelson in 1910. Their 40-round brawl at Point Richmond, just across the bay from San Francisco, was one of the bloodiest in the history of boxing. Promoter Billy McCarney had stirred up a fine feud between the fighters, and when Referee Eddie Smith called them to the center of the ring to explain the rules, Nelson cut him short: "Let everything go. No fouls." That was all right with...
Frustrated Fury. It was the bloodiest incident in the six bloody years of armistice along the troubled Egyptian-Israeli border. On the Egyptian side, Captain Sadek and 38 others were dead, including 19 Palestinian Arabs serving in the border guard. Eight Israelis were killed. 13 wounded. Said one Egyptian officer :"This must have been planned in a conference room, and on maps...
...John de Croydon brought it to them, they decided that it was no good. De Croydon said it was; the scholars said it wasn't. To emphasize their point, they threw it in the tavern keeper's face. With that gesture-just 600 years ago-began the bloodiest town-and-gown riot in the history of Oxford...
...Before the contestants roared across the flat homestretch to Juarez last week, so many cars had missed turns, somersaulted off the road and plowed through packs of spectators, that more than a score were injured and seven more drivers were dead. But by the time they wound up the bloodiest Pan-American yet, the racers had also managed to hang up a few less gloomy marks. In the unlimited sports car division, Italy's Umberto Maglioli, driving a Ferrari, set a new race record of 17 hrs. 40 min. 26 sec. In the small sports car division, Germany...