Word: tumults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer day in 1936, during the tumult of the Spanish Civil War, a Fascist squad arrested Federico Garcia Lorca in a friend's house and on the following morning, shot...
...finds them there, locks them up, and by the time the war ends the sentimental old wretch has grown so fond of his two prisoners that he decides to keep them as pets. Soberly, he fakes reports from the battle zones ("London is pffft") while the tumult of German reconstruction gets under way outside, sounding conveniently like the thunder of guns...
Fruit of Humility. Yet despite the tumult and the tremors, India continues to function with a stability rare in Asia. Part of the reason stems from India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, whose modest manner is the very antithesis of the hubris of Nehru. Tiny and turkey-necked, shy as a schoolboy in his rumpled dhoti and brown loafers, Shastri both matches the diminished stature of India and reflects its inchoate strength. By merely surviving for 14 months in a situation that many thought might end in anarchy, Shastri has shown that India has a chance...
...from the Beach. "What is it all about?" asks Françoise Rosay, a world-weary old Frenchwoman caught in the tumult of D-day in Normandy. Such questions are staples of the burgeoning crop of movies about World War II. Perhaps the worst blow that can befall a war drama is to let the hostilities lag while homilies ricochet among the ruins, and Beach too often calls time out for talk...
...after the ex-French colony of Haiti had deposed, blown up, poisoned or butchered six Presidents in four years, and with France already starting to land troops, U.S Marines moved in, ruled the Negro republic for 9 years. In 1916, after similarly bloody tumult in the Dominican Republic, marines intervened, stayed until 1924. In each case, the American intervention forces created local constabularies, collected customs and serviced the country's foreign debts...