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...Telugu schoolboys waving lengths of black silk, beating their chests and crying, "Madras city is ours." At the crematorium, the frail body was washed in rose water and burned on a pile of sandalwood while Hindu priests recited the funeral service and Telugu politicians thundered to the mourning mob that they would never give up Madras city...
...streets crying: "Workmen, you must go to work tomorrow. Shopkeepers, your shops must remain open!" Frenchmen who heard and understood nodded in satisfaction; maybe there would be no trouble after all. But in the vast jungle of tin-roofed hovels known locally as Bidonville (Can Town), an angry mob was forming. There the criers were beaten up before they could deliver their message. Glib agitators harangued little knots of Arabs while others began hiding stones under their burnooses. From shack after shack came the ominous scrape of crude knives being honed...
...Quick Look. Next morning the peaceful clop-clop of fiacres on the Boulevard du Quatriëme Zouaves was interrupted by the rumble of trucks filled with Berber troops and the quick march of the blue-black Senegalese riflemen. They were met by a mob of some 10,000 screaming Arabs armed with sticks, stones and anything else that could pierce or bludgeon. Hard-bitten French Commandant Louis Durand three times commanded the mob to halt. As the Arabs continued to surge forward, Durand gave the order; the crack of rifle fire split the air and an estimated 40 Arabs...
...responsible for his safety. But 15 minutes before the fight, Luis Miguel drove up to the ring. He got out of his car some distance from the gate, meticulously adjusted his embroidered cape upon his shoulder and his montera on his forehead, and strode alone toward the mob. The angry crowd fell silent and opened respectfully before him. That afternoon he put on such a show that he was carried back to his hotel on the shoulders of his fans. Bullfighting had a new king...
Doug Manchester utilized a mob scramble to put the Crimson four up at 6:91 and then shot a neat cross-pass which Bray hammered home at 11:44. Bray is currently the team's leading scorer, with four goals and an assist in two games...