Word: stampeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas Macaulay and a host of lesser chroniclers have left one terrible night in India indelibly stamped upon the world's memory. It was that night in June 1756, when 123 prisoners, many of them British soldiers, died of suffocation in "the black hole of Calcutta," a lockup in...
According to Gussner, the country is in the grip of a mass hysteria of national pride. "If I went out in the street now and stamped on the American flag," he said, "I would be instantly mobbed. But if instead, I went out and yelled 'Down with the Jews!' people...
Governor-designate Earl Long, like Huey, grew up amid the piney woods of northern Louisiana, stamped by the social doctrine their father believed in.
French revenge is efficient. So far this year, the French army in Algeria has killed 2,200 suspected fellagha. Yet far from being stamped out, the fellagha revolt is spreading. It has long since dwarfed the Mau Mau war in Kenya; it now threatens France with another Indo-China, this...
The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger; United Artists). All that glitters is not necessarily tin foil. In this picture the moviegoer is offered the prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic...