Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day in Nicosia, 300 students armed themselves with empty Coca-Cola bottles, stones and iron bars, locked themselves on the roof of a school library. They pelted "Black Turk" police in the square below, beat back attempts to storm the library entrance. Security forces broke the siege only after firing volleys of tear gas and charging in with batons for hand-to-hard fighting. The same day, a rumor swept Nicosia of the murder of two Turks by EOKA's Greek terrorists. Turk Cyprors stormed out of their quarters, sacked a Greek church and five shops...
...disclosures set off a storm of anti-Moroccan feeling all over Spain. In Madrid, crowds booed Franco's Moors in the streets, greeted their newsreel appearances with noisy catcalls. Reluctantly, Franco gave the order to disband, his faithful Moors...
...July 8), the only physician in the marshland town of Cameron (pop. 3,000), at the southwestern corner of Louisiana, was Cecil William Clark, 33, who ran a community medical center with a twelve-bed hospital. Dr. Clark was confident that his new brick house would ride out the storm, but he was worried about the frame clinic building (with only a brick veneer) and its eight bedfast patients. Leaving their three youngest children at home with a maid, Dr. Clark and his wife Sybil (a nurse-anesthetist) set out soon after 2 a.m. to evacuate the hospital...
...Biggest storm blew up not over the loi-cadre itself but over Pierre Mendès-France's plea that France could not afford to wave off Tunisian-Moroccan offers to mediate a settlement with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Mendès was howled down. He managed to finish only after his bitter political enemy Georges Bidault shouted: "If Mendès-France has not the right to speak here, then no one has the right to reply...
...ride out the storm last week. Capital President David H. Baker and Chairman J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael flew to London, hoping to stretch out payments on their Viscount fleet. In addition. Capital is economizing everywhere, may trim its 8,000-man payroll by 10%. Yet its main hope rests with CAB. Barring subsidy, it wants a healthy fare increase. Without it, Capital may eventually be forced to shut down or merge, possibly with Northwest Airlines...