Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Screams of "Nadra!" The Moslems of Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem...
A fanatic mob, 5,000 strong, ranged the streets, shouting "Nadra!" and "Allah!", stoning and cudgeling Europeans and Eurasians, overturning automobiles, driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred...
Chants of "Bertha!" A K.L.M. airliner flew Bertha and her mother home to Holland. The whole country was agog over their arrival. There were shouts of welcome, chants of "Bertha," government greeters, hard-pressing cameramen and reporters. Through it all, the jungle girl kept a sullen look. At the Hertoghs...
For its exhibit of "Wonderful Moments in the New York Theater," a Manhattan museum had a surprise visitor with a donation: Maude Adams, 78, came in with the "diamond and emerald" crown she wore in A Kiss for Cinderella, her 1917 farewell Broadway performance.
In Paris, when Communist Scientist-Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie walked into the Collège de France auditorium for a lecture on atomic physics, he was greeted with a volley of catcalls, stink bombs and firecrackers. By the time the cops arrived, the explosive students had...