Word: tram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politics. He appeared at a third-floor window and cried: "We ask the gendarmes to retire. This is a legal demonstration. Gendarmes have no business here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram and we'll take care of you, you lousy scab!" yelled a red-scarved striker. Another scrambled to the tram top. While thousands watched, the Leopoldist and anti-Leopoldist squared off, pummeled each other...
Truth. "[After signing an agreement to spy on the Americans], I was led out of the building, and left in a very friendly manner in front of the tram stop . . . Got home, washed, opened a can of sausage with some red wine, and went...