Word: ruffian
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...followed, in Germany and abroad, are now on the wane, but at week's end, with a vehemence rare in him. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went on the air with a remedy for anti-Semites in action: "I say to all my German fellow citizens, if you catch a ruffian anywhere, execute the punishment on the spot and give him a sound thrashing...