Word: riotousness
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...Naguib's soldiers put down a riotous strike of 6,000 textile workers near Alexandria, set up a special military court staffed with twelve prosecutors who worked all night taking evidence against 30 instigators and ringleaders. "The sentences,'' said General Naguib, "will be executed immediately and without mercy." Later, emerging from the headquarters mosque at Abbassia, Naguib faced his cheering soldiers and warned them: there are "still in the country elements who are actively working to frustrate our movement. We'll crush them-we'll shoot them if necessary...
...accident on June 22, 1943, as he has said. Instead he was hurt in a hilarious 'shellback' initiation on that date. It occurred when a Navy transport en route to combat areas but without a single dangerous alert during its entire voyage was the scene of the riotous gaiety traditional to crossing the equator...
...optimist," Lurçat says, "and my tapestries are optimists." His designs are filled with riotous color and movement; flocks of flitting butterflies, bounding animals and forests of flying leaves, all done in brilliant reds, blues, mustard yellows and jet black. Sometimes the optimism comes out with a reverse twist. One of his best works is a large (210 sq. ft.) affair with an evil-looking creature covered with yellow and black feathers facing a gaily prancing deer-and a legend: "So you will better understand unhappiness [which] is too stupid to exist...
...Class of '27, breaking all records for riotous reuning, is planning to break another record at the alumni exercises Thursday afternoon when they present the University with a quarter century gift...
Elbowing and hand-shaking their way into town from 20 countries and 39 states, these members of a roaring college class will begin their riotous week soberly with memorial services for the class's 74 deceased members in Memorial Church at 4:30 this afternoon...