Word: violent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party had been around the U.S. for 30 years, yet the Federal Government had never before tried to prosecute it for conspiracy. It was nonsense to say that communism's "scientific socialism" ("Much easier to understand than relativity," he declared) taught the violent overthrow of the U.S. The party, which numbered 70,000 members, merely practiced "the real principles of Marxism-Leninism...
...rape, and while its fury was still up, set fire to Negro business buildings in the town. The fire got out of hand, destroyed a good part of the white folks' downtown district too, including the courthouse. It was the last big mob lynching in Texas' violent history (score: 551 lynchings). Now that President Truman was trying to impose an anti-lynch law on the South, Texans got to thinking again of passing one of their...
...whipped Cuban emotions. Newspapers front-paged pictures of the sailor perched on the statue, printed yards of invective against the "barbaric yanqui vandals." Shouted Senator Eduardo Chibas: "Neither American nor men, but beasts." The Communist daily Hoy went into an anti-American frenzy, devoted its entire front page to violent denunciations...
Underground. Though it has changed ownership only once since 1800, the Gazette (circ. 9,200) has had eight different names and has suffered more violent changes. Gazette Founder Samuel Snowden and son Edgar pursued a, conservative editorial way until the Civil War. When Federal occupation troops arrested an Alexandria minister in church for refusing to pray for Abraham Lincoln, the Gazette cried out at the indignity. Angry Unionists burned the offices down, and the paper had to publish underground. When it finally made peace with the Unionists and emerged, the Gazette was still unreconstructed...
...played a violent game in foil and saber and took a slim lead over City College for first place. The Violets have 42 points while CCNY, present holder of the three-weapon title, picked...