Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with such cries as "What did you do to prevent the bad years?" and "I'm for Gomulka, but right after he came in prices went up." Listening coldly to candidates' ingratiating speeches, voters debated which was the better way to manifest their disgust with Communism: to boycott the elections, or to cross off all the Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted, who did not hesitate to appeal to Poland's latent anti-Semitism and describe the Gomulka faction as a "bunch...
Spreading Boycott. There was nothing the police or the Guardia Civil could do. But students ringing a triumphant peal on the university bells gave the heavy-handed cops the excuse they needed. A police riot squad, backed by a fire-department engine squirting dye-stained water, charged into a group of 200 students in the College of Arts and Letters. Later, red-bereted Franco Guards reported a "black deed" committed by the students: a university portrait of Franco was missing and turned up later behind the medical school, with the word TRAITOR written across it. Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga closed...
...boycott began to affect downtown shops, bars, restaurants, theaters and even (for Catalonians, a big sacrifice) soccer games, Barcelona became like a dead city. There were whispers of a general strike. Clandestine pamphlets appeared, citing "the incapacity of some authorities" and demanding their dismissal. The boycott bore the mark of some planning, but by whom? An informed guess was that disaffected young Falangists were its base organizers...
SOUTH AFRICA Caged Men It was no wonder that the white citizens of Johannesburg were jittery. A man might ignore the 93° heat and the potentially explosive bus boycott that Johannesburg Negroes had organized in protest against a fare rise. No one, however, could ignore the tension which emanated from the city drill hall, where 156 South Africans last week faced a court on charges of high treason-a trial which the London Economist likened to Hitler's notorious Reichstag fire trial...
...howls against Discounter Gattegno's "American plague" were just as vehement as those hurled at his American counterparts. Sternly calling on manufacturers to boycott his booming business, French retail-trade papers scornfully labeled him "Monsieur 20%." Virtually the entire Paris press, fearful of losing regular accounts, refused his advertising. Thomson-Houston, the big French equivalent of General Electric, refused to sell him its appliances...