Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was all the inspiration the students needed. Just before 11 a.m., someone with a pair of powerful shears managed to break the chain that held together the gates on Taleghani Street, and the crowd surged through. Once inside the compound, some headed for the ambassador's residence, where the servants offered no resistance (there has been no U.S. ambassador in Tehran since William Sullivan left in April). Others tried to take over the chancellery but found it protected with armor plating and grillwork. Using bullhorns, they shouted at the occupants: "Give up and you won't be harmed...
Today's K.K.K. units are also trying to recruit children. In more than a dozen cities throughout the country, Klan sympathizers have distributed leaflets to high school students asking: "Are you 'fed up to here' with black, chicano and [Oriental] criminals who break into lockers and steal your clothes and wallets?" The solution, according to the leaflet, is to join the Klan Youth Corps. At a K.K.K. summer camp in Jefferson County, Ala., robed counselors teach girls and boys ages ten to 18 the fundamentals of race supremacy and how to use guns. Near Decatur...
Along a large crack, corresponding layers of rock were offset vertically-in some places by as much as 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.). In other words, a break had occurred and some of the rock sank. Apparently, at some time in the remote past, the rock had been uplifted-perhaps by volcanism...
...your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful...
...times Hill tested the Harvard line and failed. Right cornerback Steve Wool intervened on third down to break up a Yale pass. Yale scorned the field goal on fourth down, and Rogan once more failed to complete the pass. Finding no holes in the stiffened Harvard defense, he tossed the ball out of the end zone...