Word: surfeited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirty Hands. Partly because of the army censorship in Algiers, partly out of a surfeit of crises, plain Frenchmen did not at first recognize the deadliness of the situation. Only gradually did it become clear that not just a few barricades had to be taken, but half of Algiers, half of Constantine. Not until the fourth day of the uprising did French newspaper readers learn that the insurgents had freed fellow insurgents from jail, permitted shops to be opened or ordered them to close, shut down Algiers municipal services and were in control of the city with the army...