Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flaming bottles of gasoline crashed against buses; hard-pressed police squads fired deadly volleys into swirling bands of rebels, carted hundreds of demonstrators off to jail. Under the yellow stucco arcades of old buildings, the air was blue-grey with tear gas. At one point five schoolboys popped onto the...
No Bargains. From six other Venezuelan cities reports filtered into the capital of similar strikes and riots. Troops tried to enforce an emergency 6 p.m. curfew, but fighting blazed on into the night through echoing streets lit by blood-red neon signs. By now the cops and troops were firing...
Revenge Reaction. At news of the dictator's downfall, Caracas became the scene of a strange mixture of wild celebration and savage fighting. Cheering crowds ran through the streets waving banners and screaming "Libertad!" at the top of their lungs. They raided the offices of the pro-Pé...
The reaction was spontaneous, and reminiscent of Hungary's freedom fight. Howling with anger, the rioters fell on the hated Security cops, beat four of them to death. The rest retreated inside the building, broke out machine guns and rifles, and began firing for their lives. The battle raged...
Fury Spent. From the barracks, the mob turned on foreign embassies in which members of the ousted dictator's administration had sought asylum. They milled outside the Dominican embassy shouting insults at Pérez Jiménez' friend, ousted Argentine Dictator. Juan PeroÓn. They stormed...