Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman sitting in a snack bar near the palace saw about 50 soldiers wearing black ski masks run past. Moments later the night was shattered by automatic-weapons fire and the blast of mortars and grenades. Those unexpected sounds of combat signaled the beginning last Thursday night of the bloodiest, most dangerous coup attempt yet mounted against Aquino's 18- month-old government...
...fact, Safire consistently skimps on physical descriptions. Photographers reach Antietam, the scene of the bloodiest battle in American history. What does it look like? How does it feel to be in the middle of unimaginable carnage? Safire disposes of such questions in two perfunctory sentences. Then he gets to the important part, a detailed exposition of how photographs are made, circa 1862: "He coated a sheet of glass with collodion, the guncotton dissolved in alcohol and sulphuric ether mixed with a little bromide and iodide of potassium they had compounded the night before...
...1/2-year Iran-Iraq war has turned into one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century. Some 40,000 soldiers have been killed around the southern Iraqi city of Basra just since January. The entire death toll for the war is estimated at more than 1 million. Last week a United Nations inspection team accused Iraq of using chemical weapons against Iranian troops and civilians. Meanwhile, with the help of local Kurdish tribesmen, Iran's forces have established a new offensive in the northern part of Iraq, where the Iranians claim to have captured 185 sq. mi. of territory. Correspondent...
...explosion capped the bloodiest week yet since the outbreak of civil war four years ago. The government of President Junius R. Jayewardene blamed two separatist groups for the violence: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Eelam Revolutionary Organization. Sri Lanka's 2 million Tamils have long protested against political and economic discrimination by the country's 16 million Sinhalese. While moderate Tamil leaders have attempted to negotiate a settlement of the conflict, the Tigers and other militant groups have demanded an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern provinces...
...book ends with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, the Leningrad party leader, whose death in 1934 was used by Stalin as an excuse to launch the bloodiest of the purges. The novel strongly suggests, as do a number of Western historians, that Stalin was responsible for the murder...