Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sympathizers & Friend. Philadelphia had experienced a Communist technique of creating turmoil. Thousands of union men & women and their sympathizers had been goaded to rebel against constituted authority, in legal robes and in blue uniforms. The police, when the violence had come, had added to it by eagerly swinging their clubs (see cut). An orderly strike had suddenly been turned into a bitter battle...
Egypt was plagued with foreign wars and domestic turmoil; Nile transportation had broken down, and the supply of granite blocks from the upriver country had ceased. Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him. He was 6½ ft. tall...
...During this turmoil, L'Uomo Qualunque, reverting to a well-known type of fascist propagandas, whips up universal discontent and makes use of psendo-democratic catch words against all Democratic movements. How great an effect it will have is yet to be seen...
Last week a lively, complacent oldtimer, soon to retire after 31 years as president of Vassar College, told the world he wanted no part of it. "What is all this posthaste and romage [bustle, commotion or turmoil] in the land about general education?" demanded Henry Noble MacCracken in a vigorous article in the New York Herald Tribune. He is at work on Vassar's postwar plans - and, he says, "we'll probably come out by the same door we went...
...Inquisition put a sleuth on the lovers' tracks, Goya caught the sleuth and calmly skinned the soles of his feet with a dagger. The book ends when the Duchess dies, and Goya, ferocious as ever but now stone deaf, embarks on an old age diversified with the turmoil and violence of Napoleon's invasion of Spain, which he reported in incomparable etchings...