Word: taxman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shopkeepers staged their biggest demonstration yet. Some 25,000 grocers and hoteliers, barbers and plumbers, from as far away as Corsica, crowded into the Pare des Princes stadium to protest stiff taxes and rising competition from modern large-scale retailers. They carried banners proclaiming "Crushed to Death by the Taxman" and "We Want to Live." Some wanted to fight, too. Swarming through the streets, 2,000 of them attacked police in a 45-minute fracas that ended in 30 injuries and 13 arrests. It was the worst clash since the May 1968 riots...
Taxing the Taxman...
...Beatles, certainly, are among the most attractive buds of Flower Power, articulating its noblest sentiments as no one else yet has. They are, for a start, apolitical. They have never written a protest song. Except, perhaps for "Taxman." Written when the government was skimming off 90 per cent of their earnings, it is a song in which they wagged a scrupulously bipartisan, yet threatening, finger: "Oh-hoh Mr. Wilson, oh-hoh Mr. Heath...