Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week India's Communists chose inflammable Calcutta to show their defiance of Nehru's government for its act in ousting the Reds from power in the state of Kerala (TIME, Aug. 10). They had plenty of tinder at hand: the soaring food costs and the rice shortage, which are spreading misery in Calcutta and all West Bengal. Starving mobs have halted freight trains and looted the cars of food. Confidently using the tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister...
Last month the smoldering fuss flared further. The tinder: Lourdes' new Information Center, founded with the blessings of France's Cardinal Tisserant. Bishop Théas discovered not only that one of the center's staff priests belonged to Opus Cenaculi, but that it was planning to start its own publishing house instead of devoting all revenue to the basilica...
...tinder in Algeria had been lying there for years, ready to be lighted...
Thus rejected by friend and foe alike, suspicious of any talk of compromising their rights to return to their homes in Israel, the refugees are ready emotional tinder for the incendiary troublemaking of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Four Negro newsmen had foolishly approached the crowd from the rear. It was the tinder's spark. Some 20 rednecks turned on the Negroes, began chasing them back down the block. Other whites streamed behind. A one-armed man, his dimpled stump below his shirtsleeve, swung wildly at one Negro. Another Negro (a onetime U.S. marine) decided not to run, ambled with terrifying dignity through a gauntlet of blows, kicks and curses. A cop stood on a car bumper to get a better view. Other cops moved toward the fighting. Faubus Henchman James Karam cried angrily, "The nigger started...