Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breach of Decency. Police had their suspicions about the shop all along, but were unaware of the full nature of the ring or its clients until a frightened 16-year-old prostitute who was arrested provided them with a list of 30 names. Some of the men were then charged with such offenses as pimping, corruption of minors and breach of decency. The list included three counts, a marquis, the son of an ex-king, a hotel owner, a prominent businessman and a former diplomat to the United Nations. The ring's two madams were immediately convicted and sentenced...
...Manchester, N.H., 22 demonstrators wert arrested for breach of the peace after violence erupted in the Manchester induction center. According to police, the demonstrators pushed shouting up the stairs where volunteers for the military had just been conducted by police officers...
Actually, the election was more like a ritual slaughter. Outgoing Mayor Theodore McKeldin, a former Maryland Governor and another moderate Republican, made a last-minute decision last spring not to seek re-election-likely because he saw he would lose. Lawyer Sherwood stepped into the breach, then quarreled with McKeldin during the campaign. Backed by the Baltimore Council of A.F.L.-C.l.O. Unions, D'Alesandro rolled easily into his father's office and, behind him, the Democrats won every elective municipal post...
...Have you ever participated in a public gathering during which breach of the peace occurred? When...
After that action was taken there were several moving speeches about the difficulty, let's say, or the breach that has come between students and Faculty and lamenting that there was so much misunderstanding and a hope that we could find ways to talk more patiently at greater length to reach some basic understanding about what are really involved in issues of this kind...