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Word: thunderflash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges massed in Brussels. Marching ten abreast down the Avenue du Midi, some of them toting banners with the absurd slogan "Flemish Doctors for Flemish Patients," they ran smack into phalanxes of waiting Walloons, and the riot was on. When one Flemish tough tossed a "thunderflash"-a beer can filled with gunpowder-into the crowd, 4,000 steel-helmeted riot police who had been poised just off the boulevard wheeled into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: Thunderflash in Brussels | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

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