Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgian children were not the worst off in Western Europe's unfolding malnutrition chart. The farther the Allied troops advanced, the hungrier they found the population. Imported food was a necessity. Food was also politics, for the lack of food could lead to unrest and delay Europe's rehabilitation...
...began modestly, as a pimp, burglar and small-time gambler. But Dago Mangano had brains and a pleasant, breezy personality. He soon became known as a man of executive ability. When Al Capone ran Chicago's Syndicate, Mangano was a trusted lieutenant. After Capone there was much unrest. The late Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, Jack Guzik (TIME, May 1) and the incumbent Tony Accardo, successively became Syndicate chieftains...
Primitive Christians. The agony of the Thirty Years' War left religious Europeans in a state of mind much like that of religious people during World War II. There was widespread dissatisfaction with the established churches, widespread social unrest. Central Europe broke out into a rash of mystical, often non-sacramental sects whose members strove (usually under fierce persecution) to recover the spirit and the practices of the primitive Christian church. In the midst of arid orthodoxy, they sought catacombs of the spirit where direct communion with God might be achieved, usually with little or no intercession by clergy...
Central America's heady unrest swept into Nicaragua, rippled ominously around the white hilltop palace of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. In his spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
Most Frenchmen went about their business pretty much as usual. But organized partisans stirred and struck. Many towns and villages of central and southern France flew the Tricolor. The core of unrest lay in the region around Vichy; there, by Nazi decree, all civilian motor and bicycle traffic came to a halt...