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Word: seafronting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslems went into hiding. But one Moslem truck driver, accelerating to get away, knocked down and killed a European woman. The mob dragged the driver out of his cab, beat him senseless. A soldier killed him with a long burst from his submachine gun. On the city's seafront boulevard the mob halted traffic, permitted European cars to pass, then spotted a red-capped Moslem atop a beer truck. Dragging him down, they battered him to death with beer bottles, were about to loot the truck when they discovered that the driver was French. Apologizing, they reloaded some beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Dance of Death | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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