Word: tumbril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh may soon find himself taking a side in a tumbril, according to C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
...regime promised moderation, tolerance and forgiveness. Last week tolerance was lost in the mounting clamor of a great Red terror. Mao Tse-tung's regime announced the execution of 120 "counterrevolutionaries" at Canton, 56 at Swatow, 89 at Hankow, 28 at Kweilin. In scenes reminiscent of the tumbril-and-guillotine days of the French Revolution, the Communists turned the spectacle of death into public carnivals, with music and dances...