Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the third night, the size of the crowds and their temper increased. Police officials called out the Mobile Guard, 1,000 strong. To their salvos of tear-gas bombs the police and security troops added concussion grenades. Still the crowds grew, arming themselves with paving stones and bricks from...
Within an area smaller than Cambridge, these men are fighting bitterly for the right to rule fewer people than populate this University. The Communist force atop Mt. Titano claims virtual control of the country, while the anti-Reds, holed up near the Italian border, maintain that the Communists hold power...
"If I Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it...
Besides a staggeringly large amount of drinking, there were also many cases of men sleeping with their dates in various corners of fraternity house rooms and other convenient spots. Destruction of property was fairly wide-spread, and nearly $5,000 worth of goods were stolen from the campus houses during...
Murrow's alarms are almost always matched by his excursions to the scene of the news. He covers his stories with an intensity that courts exhaustion and a passion for physical danger that is the despair of his friends and employers. Says his friend and boss, Bill Paley: "You...