Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first period, Solomon Gomez took a free direct kick from just outside the penalty area A line of seven Owls gave Gomez virtually no opening to the net, but the Gambian super-star blasted a line drive that smashed off the left post of the goal and caromed...
Although estimates vary widely as to how many youths gathered on the broad avenue on the edge of the Federal Triangle area of Washington, it seems reasonable to say that between 10,000 and 20,000 were there. In any case, the crowd was larger than that at any demonstration at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and certainly larger than that at the Weatherman action last month...
After the demonstrators were finally driven away from the Federal Triangle area, many regrouped to lead an assault on the White House, Several thousand militants ran past two police checkpoints before they were finally stopped within a block of the White mansion's high black gates...
...stability. On the rare occasions when an incumbent is turned out of office, it is almost always to make room for a former member (as was the case in the re-election of Gabriel Piemonte this year) or to allow a politician who has made his name in another area, such as the school committee, to move...
...police first shot gas at the front of the crowd, which began to retreat immediately. Then as the 10,000- both militant demonstrators and less-militant spectators- on Constitution Avenue tried to leave the area, the crowd was bottle-necked by narrow exits...