Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Away from the riot-torn areas, most of Warsaw remained calm. Tram cars continued on their routes, mothers pushed babies in prams, and tourist and sporting craft plied the brown waters of the Vistula River. Anger was directed chiefly against police tactics. Asked if any police had been treated, a hospital nurse replied unsmilingly: "We haven't had the pleasure...
...hotel. But all is not lost, and in time he meets a trig, purposeful American girl named Evelyn. She takes over Armand's business affairs like a one-woman managerial revolution, but she also shows him what noisy music they can make together by staging a small riot in a restaurant and getting the duke thrown in jail. Since no one in his family has had this kind of fun since the French Revolution, Armand happily jettisons liberty, equality and fraternity for connubiality. U.S. girls are a trifle bossy and European men a shade flighty, but, shrugs Bemelmans, ever...
...southeastern border to invade Syria. It said that the U.S. has loosed 4,000 agents in the Middle East to destroy Arab nationalism. It reported that a U.S. diplomat in New Delhi tried to steal the Taj Mahal jewels in hopes of inciting a Hindu-Moslem race riot. The newspaper Al Kahira characterized the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles as "a sadist," and Al Gum-huria called him a "madman...
...students, still apparently untamed, taunted the anti-riot forces with shouts of "Gestapo, gestapo." Poland was one of the first and worst sufferers at the hands of Hitler's gestapo more than a decade...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26--Amid confusion in the Pentagon, Secretary of the Army Brucker tonight countermanded an order to Army units in the South to train for riot duty and prepare to speed to scenes of civil disorder...