Word: ruffianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government through which they focus pressure on Kassem. Presided over by Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, a willing tool of the Communists, the court stages televised nightly trials of "enemies of the regime," i.e., enemies of the Communist Party. Mahdawi is a suety, quick-witted ruffian-"Egypt has always had bad rulers. Cleopatra was a whore"-who holds court to extract confessions rather than dispense justice. Making up his own rules, treating the accused as already convicted, interrupting to make long and wildly irrelevant speeches, Mahdawi, with his four fellow judges, has already sentenced to death dozens...
...family prevailed on Franco to lock the moviemakers out of Spain), "Paco" Goya is a beardless, hot-blooded youth (Anthony Franciosa) newly arrived in Madrid from the sticks. The duchess (Ava Gardner), a democratic type who prefers saloons to salons, eyes him ravishingly after he rescues her from a ruffian in a tavern. In a twinkling, Paco packs off to the South to love and limn her for the ages...
...Understanding. The first angry. disappointed reaction in Britain was to acknowledge the failure of Macmillan's mission, but to cheer him for doing his best against a ruffian. British officials suddenly became less ready to lecture others on inflexibility or to regard another Berlin airlift as unduly provocative...
...isolation wards of the ruffian-troubled New York City school system-its two 700 schools-were back in the news last week, only a fortnight after they were set up to keep hard-to-handle kids off the streets, and embarrassing headlines out of the school officials' hair (TIME, March 17). The incident: at the Greenwich Village school, boys were lined up for a pre-class contraband check. Among ruled-out items: knives, cigarettes, matches (combs-which make effective face-slashers with the teeth broken out-may be banned next). One student, 15-year-old Charles McDougle...
...from Germany for her own use. "Providence will provide," she told the other captains when they began to wonder what had happened to the potatoes. But as winter wore on and Providence seemed to provide only for Nannarella, the others grew suspicious. At last, her archrival, a tall, handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told her. "If you let us have some potatoes, we'll come over to you." Soon afterward, when she saw one of the would-be defectors in deep confab with Gigi...