Word: narutowicza
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...riots started when 2,000 students met at the big student hostelry on downtown Narutowicza Square to protest the action of Wladyslaw Gomulka's press-control office in banning the country's boldest and best-known crusading student weekly, Po Prostu (Plain Speaking). Po Prostu had zealously supported Gomulka in his stand against Nikita Khrushchev and the rest of Poland's Soviet overlords last year, but since then had lent its own voice to the rising crescendo of intellectual discontent with the slow pace of Gomulka's democratization...
Badge of Honor. The police's brutality aroused many who had been only mildly concerned over the fate of Po Prostu, and the next night a larger throng gathered in Narutowicza Square. The students flaunted their bandages as badges of honor. In the shadow of the Church of Swietego Jakuba the rioters played a kind of reckless Warsaw pingpong with the police, picking up their tear-gas bombs and hurling them back into their ranks...
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