Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal, which will be presented to the Council Monday, also urges a crackdown on out-of-state and out-of-town cars with inadequate insurance coverage...
...Polytechnic Institute last week, 30 determined young Poles probed deep for the weak spot in Russia's hitherto impregnable Communist empire. No plotters, and meaning to be peaceable, they were asking questions: How much farther can Poland go on the road to democratization without risking a Soviet crackdown? Can the Polish Communist Party slow down the momentum of Poland's drive for complete national independence? The answers could also spell out the end of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, and a formidable reduction of Soviet power itself...
Marquette University, in Milwaukee, has ordered a crackdown on girls who "kiss goodnight in front of dormitories...
...Council had suggested that "good citizenship" was an inadequate rationale for the ticketing crackdown, since the ticketing definitely discriminated against students...
...five years Japan's "Little Stalin" was a teak-jawed, cold-eyed ex-factory worker named Shigeo Shida. All other top Communists had fled to China after General MacArthur ordered a crackdown on Communists in 1950. Shida stayed, went underground and took over command by default. A hardened revolutionary with a taste for cold-blooded intrigue and a record of twelve years in prison, Shida built up a strong following among the younger, tougher comrades. He appointed himself chief of the party's "military committee," decreed a policy of unflinching violence. "We must always be prepared to give...