Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rabble-rousing, unfrocked Roman Catholic priest named Arthur Terminiello (since reinstated) was making a speech. On the platform with Terminiello was his soapbox bullyboy pal, Gerald L. K. Smith. Terminiello incited his audience with a fascist line of invective and bate. The mob outside hurled bricks, stink bombs, bottles and ice picks-through the windows and tried to break in the doors. Chicago police were just barely able to hold them in check and prevent a full-scale battle of the streets. Terminiello was arrested under a Chicago ordinance which declares it unlawful to create a "diversion tending...
...movie, The Iron Curtain, story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, came to Montevideo, and Uruguay's Commies broke the spell. About 200 of them turned up at Montevideo's Trocadero theater and made an unseemly rough house. They lobbed tar at the screen, dropped stink bombs, and smashed some seats. As dismayed citizens rushed for the exits, the police arrived, went after the demonstrators, carted off 70 prisoners. Finally order was restored. The citizens drifted back to the theater, and after everybody had stood up and sung the national anthem, the showing of the movie...
North Carolina made up for it. At the Progressive Party's state convention in Durham, 25 noisy pickets set off a wild scuffle. Eggs were thrown, firecrackers and stink bombs exploded, a National Guardsman fired into the air. Wallace insisted on a police escort, entered the hall behind a Guardsman with drawn pistol. He spoke against a drumfire of heckling from spectators and counter chants of "We Want Wallace" from his supporters. "What do we want for the South?" he cried. "Thurmond," bellowed his hecklers. For those who could hear, Wallace suggested that the Federal Government allot $1 billion...
...night of Jan. 11, 1943, as he stepped from an office building into the wartime brownout of New York streets, a gunman killed him. Two days before, Tresca had told his friends: "Vidali is in town. That means there is a job to be done. I smell the stink of death." Police sought Vidali-Contreras for questioning, but could not find...
...wind was from the West, where Vidali was, Tito, like Tresca, might be able to "smell the stink of death...