Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last determined gamble of Saigon's government to reassert its authority. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was striking directly at rebellious elements in his own army and indirectly at the militant Buddhists. The clash began with the lightning predawn "invasion" of rebellious Danang by Vietnamese marines loyal to Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes...
...church has always hewed closely to the gospel according to Franco. But last week throughout Barcelona, one priest after another was echoing Father Laurel's sermon in the wake of the bloody police attack on 120 black-robed priests in Barcelona early this month (TIME, May 20). The clash erupted when the priests staged a march protesting alleged police brutality in connection with anti-government student unrest at Barcelona University...
...black iron stewpots with k'uai-tzu (chopsticks) while spidery men stagger past under shoulder poles bending to the weight of oil and rice-wine buckets. Over all beats the cacophony of commerce: the steamy hiss of sidewalk cooking kiosks, the piping cry of the noodle vendors, the clash of cymbals advertising the approach of the blind Chinese masseurs who ply their trade in the side streets...
After the clash, some 100 priests gathered outside the home of their Archbishop-76-year-old Gregorio Modrego Casáus-and sent in six of their leaders to demand that the church immediately take steps to excommunicate the guilty cops. They also said that they would "tell the truth" from the pulpit. Archbishop Modrego said nothing-but his silence wished the priests back to their pulpits...
School-Board Clash. Willis tried to deal with rising racial tensions by inaction and silence. When civil rights groups charged that neighborhood-school lines were drawn to crowd Negro kids into segregated schools while nearby white neighborhoods had schools with unused classrooms, Willis long refused to produce any racial census or classroom statistics. When he ordered mobile classrooms, which his critics dubbed "Willis wagons," into a Negro neighborhood, his school board overruled him, adopted a plan of more liberal student transfers instead. Willis refused to carry it out, suddenly turned in his resignation in October...