Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy surrounding an alleged case of racial harassment by city police last March ended this summer when a civilian review board voted unanimously to dismiss the complaint filed by two Black Harvard students...
...students charged that police singled them out because they were Black. The incident sparked protests on campus last spring, and Williams and Cochrane filed a complaint with the Cambridge Police Review and Advisory Board against the officers involved...
There was just one snag. Along with the trust fund, Stillman left Harvard an all-too-real forest in upstate New York. Unfortunately, almost no one bothered using the Black Rock forest for research. This left Harvard with a problem: how to get rid of the forest without giving up the trust fund...
When Harvard originally announced its plan to sell the forest in 1984, it immediately came under attack from alumni and environmental groups, who argued that the endowment--now worth more than $2.5 million--was primarily meant for Black Rock's upkeep...
Left behind was an undefended Paris facing the almost unthinkable prospect of Nazi occupation. The Parisians responded with wild flight. With cars, ( bicycles, baby carriages, nearly 2 million of them (some 65% of the city's population) choked the roads to the south. "I fly over the black road of interminable treacle that never stops running," author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote of watching refugees from his plane. "Where are they going? They don't know. They are marching toward a ghost terminus which already is no longer an oasis...