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The 34-year-old mother of two heroically confronted the gunman and averted an even greater massacre.
Definitely not for the squeamish, the article makes no bones about where the responsibility for the massacre lay.
The Times newspaper also ran articles about a report of a massacre seven months earlier.
I thought that I had seen one tiny corner of an indiscriminate massacre of students and intellectuals, a bloodbath.
Official reports on the massacre were never released, and just two policemen were charged.
It's difficult to believe that such a peaceful place was the site of a massacre.
According to the report, the massacre occurred after the guerrillas had tried to force the workers to stage a strike against the company.
The author witnessed several tragedies, including one small-scale massacre by a neighboring population.
It was a massacre.. Australia smashed England out of the park in the batting and then took the major wickets in short order.
It was a massacre and a stunning reversal of fortune for a guy who was widely doubted as a big-game quarterback.
We discovered in the massacre at Macclesfield that all teams can look poor going backwards, and Longton were certainly no exception.
Then we will be able to massacre them, and wipe them out while they are at their weakest.
The author deftly portrays Mitchell's cavalier attitude toward the proceedings and his consequent massacre at the hands of an able prosecutor.
In 1380 he helped to quell a revolt by the Flemish burghers against the count, which ended in 1382 with the massacre of 26,000 Flemings.
Last night nearly 5,000 people in Cardiff witnessed a massacre and not a prizefight.
In this significant book, Jan Rocha tells the story of the brutal massacre of Yanomami Indians in the Amazon rainforest by Brazilian garimpeiros.
What they got instead was the massacre of innocent people and the intelligentsia.
Indonesian intelligence sources believe he was plotting a Christmas Eve massacre in churches, clubs and hotels.
In the twentieth century, the Cham were again the victims of massacre by the majority population, this time in Cambodia.
In certain limited cases, such as genocidal massacre or ethnic cleansing, other states have a responsibility to step in.
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The brutality of the police, equalled in ferociousness the massacre of the Yeomanry Cavalry.
We could not sympathise with those who are guilty of the massacre of Sinope, and we believe that this cruel war was unnecessary.
The Indian we killed turned out to be the eldest son of Ink-pa-du-ta, who was one of the head devils in the Spirit Lake massacre.
This wholesale massacre may have been carried out with a view to ensuring the complete Spanish repopulation of the islands.
A rumour spread over the whole island that, on the ninth of December, there would be a general massacre of the Englishry.
Nearly four hundred English, living in exposed areas of the colony, reportedly lost their lives in the massacre.
Here he received news of the massacre of the priests, and was joined by Abiathar, bearing the ephod of the high-priest.
But I could not discover that the massacre had any influence on the voters in the pivotal states.
A devil attired as a priest, teaching a school of little aristocrats, extols the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
Woefully had the massacre of the saints failed to please the palate of the populace.
It would take only an untoward word, a false movement, to start a massacre.
Here in 1418 assembled the partisans of Bourgogne who set out to massacre the partisans of Armagnac in their prisons.
A MOVING candlelit vigil was held in Newcastle for the victims of the Peshawar massacre in Pakistan.
In the Valenciennes massacre, not a human being was injured.
The massacre of Cherokees at the hands of thirteen colonies is another horrifying incident of history.
The jacobins had reckoned on making the massacre universal over France.
The second extends from the peace of Nicias to the massacre of Melos.
For one hour this wholesale massacre continued, from which the cachalots could not escape.
The massacre of 1622 did not leave any dead at Elizabeth City.
The Indians, under the guise of peace, were plotting a general massacre.
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