Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrival in Paris of General Matthew Ridgway to take over command of the NATO forces from Dwight Eisenhower. On the day of Ridgway's arrival, Paris blossomed like a dandelion field with hostile messages: "Ridgway go home," "Ridgway, the microbial killer." There was a small riot at Aix-en-Province, a bigger one at Bordeaux; the biggest of all was set for Paris' Place de la Republique, despite a specific ban by the Ministry of the Interior...
...arrival in Paris to take over NATO's command, he proclaimed mass demonstrations against the "microbe killer," ran cartoons showing Ridgway leading an army of insects. L'Humanité's articles were more than polemics; reading like marching orders ("All workers and inhabitants will come en masse"), they announced "more than 20 powerful demonstrations...
...method was simple. Despite the tears of Brooklyn District Attorney Miles F. McDonald and shrieks of rage from Brooklyn Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz- who threatened to send Gross to jail "for a thousand years"-he just clammed up on the witness stand. Having brought the cops to trial en masse, the prosecution was barred by laws against double jeopardy from trying to bring them to book again. Gross went off, bloody but unbowed, to serve out twelve years in City Prison...
...thumping and shocked eye-rolling, nothing quite equals the U.S. Congress in those ood, occasional moments when it feels that its honor has been impugned. Last week members of the House hit the ceiling so hard that it seemed for a while they would have to be scraped off, en masse. The Congressmen believed they were being accused by one of their own number of being drunks and spies...
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, having filmed his TV programs in advance, took off for Rome, stopped en route in County Roscommon, Ireland, to dedicate a church in the village of Croghan, birthplace of his grandmother...