Word: bloodiest
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...director. He has not often attempted fact-based movies, and he had never undertaken one that contained such huge combat scenes. He began to read more widely and deeply on the subject. And he began talking to both American and Japanese veterans of Iwo Jima, which remains the bloodiest engagement in Marine Corps history and the one for which the most Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded (27). As for the Japanese, only about 200 out of 22,000 defending soldiers survived. At some point in his research, Eastwood realized that he had to find a way to tell both...
...Middle East and South Africa were hardly involuntary, and they were far from inevitable. Without Rabin and Arafat, the Israelis and Palestinians would have continued down the same bleak, violent road they have followed since 1948. Without Mandela and De Klerk, blacks and whites would have descended into the bloodiest race war in history. In 1993 Rabin and Arafat, Mandela and De Klerk all rose to the occasion before them. Their common genius was that they saw in the convergence of circumstances a ripeness of moment -- and that they acted. They worked in pairs at their two separate projects, even...
...Wednesday, September 14 A dozen car bombings hit Baghdad; the bloodiest kills more than 100 day laborers...
...well, working with indigenous people like Gasa, the Coast-watchers charted shorelines, prepared landing beaches, provided guides through the jungle and helped in the rescue of Allied servicemen whose boats or planes had been destroyed. Lord writes that in the central Solomons, where U.S. troops experienced some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, the Coastwatchers were a boon to Allied morale...
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, when atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki drove Japan to accept defeat in history's bloodiest conflict. Japan has focused on peaceful economic development over the intervening six decades, and can take much of the credit for Asia's 20th century boom. But recent debate over issues such as Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, or reforms to its pacifist constitution to allow a standing army, has made some of its neighbors uneasy...