Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, a fine line sets the campus police force apart from a department serving an ordinary town. Larger than many municipal police departments in the state, University police must respond to break-ins, robberies and domestic disputes. But officers also function as monitors of student behavior...
Young Parent can barely wait to break out of Medford, Mass., during the late '50s. Outwardly he appears to have been quite ordinary: an altar boy who liked to plink at bottles with his .22-cal Mossberg. Yet his mind has been jump-started by books, especially Dante's The Divine Comedy. "It was not just the blood and gore," he tells a friendly parish priest, "but that the people in Hell seemed real; the ones in Purgatory and Paradise were wordy and unbelievable...
...feel that this successful season has helped to break down some of the myths surrounding our sport. It is unfortunate, therefore, that your recent coverage of rugby has focused on the negative and disregarded many of the positive aspects of our season. While our tremendously exciting New England Championship was relegated to several paragraphs on page 10, an anonymous person's misperception of one of our social events gained front-page headlines...
...hired "replacement workers," the new euphemism for scabs. The union is providing a limited medical plan and giving the strikers $200 a week in subsistence pay. Pittston says the men must face the facts of today's coal market; the miners argue that Pittston is "treacherously" trying to break the union...
...negotiations had dragged on all night at Pusan's Dongeui University, but by dawn the 100 students on the seventh floor of the school library still refused to free the five policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner. The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were seriously injured...