Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best chance to study Hitler's bigwigs closeup at the Berlin Auto Show, when he talked his way into a restricted area, found himself rubbing elbows with Hitler himself, Hess, Goebbels and Göring. Twice he was arrested by the Gestapo-once for photographing a riot, again for being in a café suspected as a gathering place for people who didn't like Nazis...
While his alarmed subordinates put in a riot call, Editor Wren tried delaying tactics: "Look, I only take orders from my commanding officer, just like you." He had not written the editorial, he said; it came canned from Hearst GHQ. Then call Hearst, demanded the marines, and "we'd like to hear the call." Wren tried, but got only as far as the No. 1 secretary at San Simeon ("Mr. Hearst is too busy to be disturbed"). In the midst of these negotiations, Navy shore patrol men and a police riot squad clumped up the stairs, then went away...
More honest than most Communists, he has never tried to sweeten up his down trodden Negroes. His typical story is of some accidental clash between Negroes and whites springing from the fear and misunderstanding of both people, suddenly flaring into a lynching, a riot, a murder...
...even wartime shortages of materials under the Nazis could hamper Paris style. Hats grew huge, vast, fantastic as imagination ran riot and millinery grew scarce. Now a common sight in Paris streets are poke bonnets of brilliant-colored straws, some 18 inches tall, and veil-draped hats reminiscent of the voluminous headgear worn by turn-of-the-century motorists. Earrings are enormous and unorthodox. Some, as big as oranges, dangle from ear to shoulder. Shoes, because leather was scarce, are wooden-soled with wedge heels three inches high...
...next night a group of Negro troops slipped out of their quarters, armed themselves with stones and poured into the barracks where the Italians were asleep. The riot had reached serious proportions before MPs dashed in and broke it up. Twenty six Italians, three U.S. soldiers attached to the unit as interpreters were sent to hospital; the Negro rioters were confined to quarters along with the rest of their unit...