Word: hardier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night. Expecting trouble, many an older concertgoer gave up his ticket to someone younger and hardier. Trouble came swiftly: a woman screamed "Naziknecht" (Nazi tool) when Van Kempen raised his arm, and the old hall became a bedlam of cap pistols, noisemakers, yelling, whistling. Another woman screamed "Shut up!" at the demonstrators. Van Kempen's impresario, sitting next to her, mistook her for a demonstrator and slapped her. "Stop it," she yelled, "you dirty Communist...
Some of the rats adjusted easily to show business. Others suffered from strain and grew jumpy and neurotic. A few died of shock or were killed and eaten by their hardier fellows...