Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stiff opposition of Hindu extremists in Nehru's cabinet puts him in political danger if he cannot keep Kashmir for India. His agreement with Liaquat Ali last week cost him the resignations of two Moslem-hating cabinet members from riot-torn Bengal. The Kashmir mediation will be a stiffer test of whether Nehru and Liaquat Ali can make their agreement work...
Western Germany was taking no chances. In Berlin, Police Chief Johannes Stumm ordered special riot training for his entire force, launched a recruiting drive for extra policemen...
...Morning Coat to Shirtsleeves. All week the Socialists tried to prove that the Liberal fears were justified; in so doing, they showed the world another, little-known side of the Belgian temper. At times, stolid sensible Brussels seemed more like the "Red belt" of Paris or a riot-torn Italian piazza...
...When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor." As they left, the comrades spat angrily on the city hall stairs. They were equally frustrated when they tried to stir up a street march. Scelba's celere (jeep-riding riot squads) dispersed them...
Some hint of the darkening skies ahead can be seen in a Ku Klux cross burning, a race riot spilling along a city street, the scarred masonry of the J. P. Morgan & Co. building after the Wall Street explosion of an anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath...