Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the Abbé Francis Ferrier. Rallying parents' associations, parochial-school pupils, and politicians, the abbe demanded that Mayor Felix Lelant prevent the film from being shown. The mayor thought hard, decided that he might prohibit the film on the grounds that it was a "provocation to riot," and got the municipal council so to rule. That night pro-Carolinians chalked the walls of Niort with the slogan: "Liberate Caroline." The anti-Carolinians retaliated with: "Caroline go Home...
Worried about the establishment of a new kind of censorship, based on the mayor's interpretation of the riot act, the film studio threatened the mayor with a suit. He had not protested a few weeks earlier when a bare-breasted film called The Is land of Nude Women had been shown in Niort; why did he protest against Caroline? The mayor admitted that he hadn't seen Caroline Chérie himself. He would talk it over with the municipal council. Weighing the risk of civil suit against church displeasure, the council last week tried to satisfy...
...longer help Italy basically." Crawford's ill-timed remarks got little play in the U.S.; they were big news in Italy-the Communists saw to that. Another formidable contributor to the left's success was its calculated good conduct during the campaign. The usual Red rule of riot and rowdiness was suspended to convince wavering Italians that Communists were really men of peace & good will...
Newspaperman Douglas Templemore, an idealist, considers the tropis a fine chance for a test case. By killing his son (bred by artificial insemination of a female tropi), Douglas hopes to cause a riot in the realm of race relations. Is he a murderer or merely an owner of a pet, which he has "put to sleep"? If he is a murderer, he may be hanged, but the tropis (and all so-called inferior races) will gain in security and dignity by judicial affirmation that they are human; if he is not a murderer, racists may at last have legal biological...
...riot provoked by Mullahs resulted in violence and bloodshed...