Word: pogroms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 1938, after a Jewish student assassinated the Third Secretary at the German embassy in Paris, the Nazis staged a nationwide pogrom, burning Jewish homes and synagogues and smashing so many windows that the rampage became known as Kristallnacht (death toll: 91). Yet again the Western Allies protested but did nothing. London maintained its strict limits on Jews' going to British-ruled Palestine, and the U.S. resisted any increase in its immigration quotas...
Although he walked away from boxing because of its brutality and racketeering, he manfully assumes his share of responsibility: "My public persona helped revitalize boxing's once flagging popularity." After leaving the confessional, Cosell offers a scrapbook of his favorable reviews in newspapers and magazines to counter the "literary pogrom against me." The sad fact is that this wheedling self-inflation is unnecessary. Cosell was a tough-minded and honest salesman who could persuade sports fans to buy just about anything. As his book proves, he just stayed too long in the toy department...
There came Brenda Fatigue, Regius Professor of Office Fashion, Ed Flue, Associate Professor of Logging: Burnside Marconi, Instructor in Televiewing: Syrup Concoct Poet-in-Residence: Benjamin Manila, Chairman of the Stationary Department: G. Root Garbage, Counselor in Veneral Diseases;...Heinz Pogrom, Horst Wessel Professor of German Philology: Gladys Bung, Dietary Tactician; Fifi Galleon, instructor in French Jobs; Catherine Thigh, Director of Sexual Services, Nicholas Syph, Bureaucracy Professor Emeritus...
...During a pogrom in the dark heart of medieval Europe, a young Jewish man is castrated for having seduced the local tax collector's wife. Through his agony, he hears a voice telling him to go to Jerusalem. It is a popular idea. Half the world seems headed in the same direction, whipped by Pope Urban II into the frenzy that will later be called the First Crusade. The maimed pilgrim boards a ship at Genoa and then finds his progress stalled. He is captured by pirates and put up for sale at a slave market in Tripoli...
Like the three members of the commission, Eban does not view criticism of an Israeli government as tantamount to support of the country's enemies. Indeed, the veteran diplomat describes the massacre, which was conducted by Lebanese Christians in an area under Israeli military control, as "a gruesome pogrom" administered with "Nazi-like sadism...