Word: rouser
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...take it. As Dimitri Mitropoulos flailed the orchestra through the first movement, sharp, hard and dissonant, they got up and walked out. The survivors were rewarded. The slow movement was just as uncompromising, but more elegiac, occasionally reminding them of melody. The final movement, like the first, was a rouser...
...Western zones," live in "wild camps" which are little more than mud holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among the refugees, Communist agitators are busy extolling the glories of East Germany which they have left behind. Cried one rabble-rouser in a speech at Wiirzburg recently: "We have only one road-back home, barefooted and in our underclothes...
...Outside the pool fence, a mob of some 200 teen-agers collected. Police arrived in time to escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...
Last week the election returns were in. Remote-control Rabble-Rouser Bose, still in Switzerland, had won hands down-19,030 votes to 5,780 for Das. Congress leaders were plainly worried. Nehru blamed Congressmen for losing their fervor and for self-seeking-"If we cannot revitalize Congress we must dissolve it in a dignified manner rather than allow it to disintegrate by stages." A Red cloud, though not yet bigger than a man's hand, had appeared on the Congress horizon...
...opportunistic rabble-rouser with no clear-cut political faith, Ex-Miner Juan Lechin got control of the tin union during the wartime regime of Dictator-President Gualberto Villaroel. After Villaroel was hanged to a lamppost in 1946 and his Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) disrupted, Lechin was among the first to cheer the new democratic government. But he missed no chance to badger it with ever-mounting wage demands...