Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound of clash and the rumor of war rumbled through the Middle East. Would the Israelis-1,500,000 people ringed around by 40 million Arab enemies -attack before the Egyptians could use the shiploads of arms the Communists had sold them? Last week the Israelis struck the bloodiest blow since the 1949 armistice. But what at first looked like the beginning of the worst turned out at week's end to be not a preventive war but one quick, calculated ounce of prevention...
...Aviv, after a new border clash, the U.N. truce chief, Canadian Major General E.L.M. Burns, said: "The irreducible minimum conditions" provide no common ground for peace talks...
...times, Washington has thought that it was witnessing a head-on clash between Humphrey and Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. In Denver last week Humphrey took pains to tell reporters where he stands with his good friend Wilson: "There is no controversy or problem between Mr. Wilson and myself at all. There never has been any time when I thought that there should be any change in the program of defense. I never asked Mr. Wilson to do anything that would change that. Mr. Wilson, on the other hand, has assured me that he is doing everything that...
Lonardi had hardly taken the presidential oath, when riots broke out in working-class sections of Buenos Aires. In the industrial city of Rosario, a rumor that Perón had left the Paraguay to lead a counter-revolt brought on a bloody clash between gun-toting soldiers and stone-throwing Peronista workers. The new government decreed an 8 p.m. curfew, warned that demonstrators would be shot...
...Bloody Sixth. Doing blackface skits and clog dances, miming Chinese laundrymen, Swedish servant girls and balloon-pants Dutch comics, the team clicked in Boston and New York. Harrigan discovered that he could write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned...