Word: tinderbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure enough, white men came-but not looking for trouble. The police chief and three patrolmen ventured to look over the tinderbox Mink Slide district. A panicky Negro opened fire. For an instant, Mink Slide was loud with gunfire. All four policemen were hit by buckshot...
...hesitate to predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The reasons are partly historic and partly aggravated by the present situation (the use of Indian troops in Java, for one thing). Certainly the tinderbox has been moved nearer the match by the Indians' frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant-1) that the British are keeping such...
...spring night in 1921 the angry torches of 10,000 white mobsters set fire to Tulsa's Negro district. The flames roared through the tinderbox houses, completely destroyed the new $92,000 Mount Zion Baptist Church (Negro). It had taken Mount Zion's 600 members seven years to finance and build their first church. All that remained were charred walls and a $50,000 mortgage...
Quietly, General George C. Marshall appeared before the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. He asked that no action be taken on the resolution at this time, warned that military operations might be endangered in the tinderbox Near East. Bolstering him were letters to the Committee from Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. At week's end, it appeared that the Senate would heed General Marshall...
East of Greece General Wilson must keep an eye on the uneasy neutrality of Turkey. Below there lies the tinderbox Levant and the peninsula of Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...