Word: violent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic symposium, "Profit and Loss Economy and the Welfare State," a three-man panel predicted no violent change in the current of American history within the next 15 years...
...bustled through three other of Ohio's big industrial counties. In the next 13 weeks he would cover some 84 more, appearing in the Senate only for important votes. The forthright and worried Taft made no secret of the reason for this activity. Confronted with an extraordinarily violent opposition, he faced defeat for reelection...
When the Communists seized Shanghai, the world wondered how its new masters would cope with the city's violent melee of crowds and commerce, swept together from east & west by winds of empire, trade and war. From Shanghai last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle cabled...
...polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom one wears a fawn-colored tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their attire...
...watches, absorbed, the mating dance of the scorpions: "These hideous devotees of gaiety provide a dance that is not wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult; a confused mass of swarming legs, snapping claws, tails curving and clashing, threatening or fondling, it is hard to say which. All, large and small alike, take part in the brawl; it might be a battle to the death, a general massacre; and it is just a wanton frolic...