Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...burst. In the slum suburbs of Belcourt and Clos Salembier, from the tar-paper shacks of Maison-Carrée, Moslems erupted in wild demonstrations. Rebel flags blossomed on dozens of minarets. Cars belonging to Europeans were smashed and burned, shops and cafes turned into a shambles. A luckless policeman was caught by the crowd and his throat cut. Nine other Europeans were beaten to death, burned alive or fatally stabbed with sharpened screwdrivers...
...wagon is here with me, while my wife drives her father's car. My children have been anxiously hoping for their travel orders, which would have brought them over in January. (When he was asked by my wife what he wanted for Christmas, my nine-year-old son burst into tears and said all he wanted was his Daddy.) This we all could take when we knew we would be together soon. It is more difficult now. This is as gentle and gradual as a guillotine...
...next day the mob came back for more. From balconies and rooftops, demonstrators showered roof tiles and bricks on the advancing lines of police. Leather-jacketed young men hurled Molotov cocktails, which burst into flowers of orange flame and clouds of oily smoke. In a doorway a young girl, her eyes streaming from tear gas, screamed at the police: "Executioners!" Dangerous but disorganized the mob fought furiously, but with an aimless fury born of frustration...
...afternoon the labor movement, taken over by Castro stooges and turned into a Castro company union, burst out in a stunning outcry that recalled the mood of the June 1953 riots in East Berlin. Summoned by Castro's Confederation of Cuban Workers to repudiate their secretary-general, anti-Communist Amaury Fraginals, 1,000 members of the Electrical Workers Union instead hoisted Fraginals on their shoulders and marched on the presidential palace shouting "Elections-down with Communism-out with fellow travelers." President Osvaldo Dorticos offered to talk to Fraginals if the demonstrators dispersed, and Fraginals told his men to hold...
...early morning one day last week, eight bombs exploded in the city, knocking out the electricity in a fifth of Havana, including the business district. Burning phosphorous sticks went into the mail drops at the central post office to burn the day's mail collection; another bomb burst a water pipe at an intersection...