Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...store for her. Visiting The Bronx, a reporter from the New York Times talked to Clara Engelmann, 64, who had moved her bed into the foyer of her apartment and slept fully dressed so she could dash out the door the next time someone tried to break into her bedroom -which had happened three times before. "They're not human," she cried. "They're not human...
CHICAGO: "Where Can I Live?" On the South Side, old people in the ancient apartment buildings look out of their windows early in the month, when the Social Security checks are arriving, and see the knots of young toughs keeping watch. On the West Side, gatherings of the elderly break up by 4 p.m. so that everyone can get home before dark. Walter Bishop, 72, a retired dry-cleaning worker, remembers how "on nice days and nights we used to take strolls and walks and things. Now I wouldn't go anywhere without a car. And after dark...
...founder of the blue-shirted Falange and a man with good Franquista credentials, made the initial defense of the political reform bill in the Cortes. "We are conscious of the fact," said Primo de Rivera, "that we must move from a personal regime to one of participation, without a break and without violence ... We must begin the future with optimism, without rancor for the past and without forgetting that we have an obligation to the present and the future...
...road gets no easier now for the hockey team, which should break into the national rankings by virtue of last night's manhandling. ECAC hockey is about as friendly competition as a race for a spot on the Boston school committee. Harvard will travel to Northeastern for a game on the 29th, and the begin a three-game homestand, facing off against Providence, Penn, and the Superblades from BU on December...
...underprivileged, but place major emphasis on mandatory punishment. He divides criminals into hard-core lawbreakers, potential criminals and experimenters who drift along. The latter two groups will diminish if faced with severe punishment, he reasons, while isolating the first group for extended durations will reduce its ability to repeatedly break the law. His proposal would not eliminate crime, he says, but it would reduce...