Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday morning, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a distress call from an undergraduate reporting an assault outside the Barker Center...
HUPD did not place a withhold tag on the incident report--which would have rendered it confidential--since the assault was not of a particularly sensitive nature, Lt. Peter A. O'Hare said yesterday...
...Great Depression, which led so many to question capitalism itself--only served to highlight the broad, deep social stability born of American affluence. But the 1960s brought one great revolution in American life--civil rights--and many smaller ones. Religious dogma, journalistic objectivity, middle-class morality--all came under assault as the war sputtered on. Pleasures were now political statements; student opposition to the war turned into an assault on Amerika. By 1970, when four students at Kent State were killed by National Guardsmen, Abbie Hoffman's "revolution for the hell of it" seemed nothing like revolution and an awful...
Perhaps never has the mood of a decade reversed itself so totally. The 1980s began with the worst U.S. inflation in 60 years and a deepening dread of nuclear annihilation. As they closed, inflation was making a last and unsuccessful assault on an economy that had found new resources, the Berlin Wall was tumbling down, and the Soviet empire was dissolving. The cold war was over--and the West...
...anything to gain by openly killing a photojournalist. As I was taking pictures, a soldier rushed in and shot all three commandos point-blank. The soldiers panicked and turned hostile, so I left. Later a cameraman who videotaped the incident told me one of the soldiers had aimed his assault rifle at my back and pulled the trigger. His weapon jammed, and before he could clear it to shoot again, I was gone...