Word: baton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...riot policemen clashed in short but bloody street battles. Long-haired gauchiste (leftist) students in blue jeans and suede jackets stopped motorists in the Latin Quarter and flipped their cars over to form makeshift barricades. Rocks, bricks and chunks of metal flew at the cops, who responded with lightning baton charges that left hundreds injured, including many innocent passersby. Nearly 1,000 students were arrested...
...idea of the ministry in which both priests and laymen play important roles. Apostolic succession is now seen by many Catholic theologians as a continuity of doctrine and Christian commitment from one generation to another within the church community -not as a sort of ecclesiastical relay race, with the baton passing from bishop to bishop and the whole team disqualified if someone drops it. Ordination by a bishop, critics note, was not always required even among Catholics. In the early Christian churches and even in medieval times, as Benedictine Theologian Kilian McDonnell points out in the current issue...
...aimed at the students who were hurling rocks from below. A handful of demonstrators kept moving toward the troops. Other Guardsmen stood behind the kneeling troops, pointing their rifles down the hill. A few aimed over the students' heads. Several witnesses later claimed that an officer brought his baton down in a sweeping signal. Said Jim Minard, a sophomore from Warren, Ohio: "I was harassing this officer. I threw a stone at him, and he pointed a .45-caliber pistol at me. He was brandishing a swagger stick. He turned away...
...holding his baton in the air, and the moment he dropped it, they fired...
...urge his fellow musicians forward. Time may have taken its physical toll of Casals the cellist. But as the evening showed, his conducting seems to improve with age. He had strong control, and he got exactly what he wanted from both music and orchestra. When he took up his baton the years vanished...