Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taunted firemen who responded to alarms, 50 of them false; one firefighter received a bullet in his hand for his pains. More than 30 policemen were injured, along with scores of rioters. At the height of the violence, 1,600 Boston bluecoats were sent in to saturate the five-block area. By the end of the third night, 63 people had been arrested...
...would also join them for lunch down the block at the Hotel Algonquin's fabled conversational Klatsch, the Round Table; among its other members were such quotables as Alexander Woollcott, Franklin Pierce Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman. She was pert, provocative, blinking her hazelgreen eyes or raising her pencil-arched eyebrows until they touched the line of her dark bangs as she delivered her acerbic ripostes...
...moved off-campus to save money and avoid ... eating breakfast in the large dormitory dining rooms." Meetings with Mrs. Bunting followed; the CRIMSON denounced her; and finally she said the College could afford a partial rebate, but only to girls in off-campus houses more than a block away from the Quad...
...people in here." At that point the crowd outside rushed the police, who used billy clubs to push them to the other side of Blue Hill Ave., where they broke windows and threw bricks and bottles. For the rest of the night the crowd faced police along a fifteen-block strip of Blue Hill Ave. Intermittently groups of Negroes charged across the street under a screen of debris thrown at the police. By early morning there were 1000 police, armed with guns, billy clubs, and baseball bats, and about as many demonstrators in the streets of Roxbury. The violence...
...together. When the Class of '42 were freshman, a delegation of "seven Harvard liberals and two Radcliffe New Dealers" went to call on flamboyant Boston Mayor James M. Curley. They were going to urge him to adopt a New Deal platform in the interest of "the Middle Class voting block," the CRIMSON said, "which Curley has reached only slightly, but which might be a valuable asset to him in the coming campaign for governor...