Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Willis pushed Chicago Negroes to violence. From sit-ins at the school board headquarters, demonstrators went on to lie-downs in front of "Willis Wagons," mobile classrooms that are sent into neighborhoods with crowded schools. Negroes regard the wheeled classrooms as devices for maintaining segregation. Police arrested 56 demonstrators. Brick-throwing teenagers injured several cops. Hotheads lofted a molotov cocktail at one Willis Wagon, set fire to another...
Five members of the Seminar are discussing the afternoon's guest speaker, a well-known defense specialist, analyst of deterrents, calculator of the probability of war. The talk has continued for an hour on the brick sidewalk outside Holworthy Hall and shows no sign of abating...
...determination to commit the atrocities, if you'll pardon a favorite word of radicals, which have happened since I got here. My reaction to the news that I was charged with assault with intent to murder was a mixture of fear and incredulity, and later laughter. I threw a brick? I will be indicted and probably convicted on a felony, with a term of two to ten years? What a joke? I then had the choice of sacrificing the principles which brought me down here: non-cooperation with the whites, except on our own terms; non-violence (I would have...
...Brick Wall. The Murchisons had not imagined there was so much fight in old Allan Kirby. With most of his $200 million fortune tied up in big blocks of blue chips, including Manufacturers-Hanover, I.T. & T. and Woolworth, they figured that Kirby would hardly risk more to battle back. But Kirby had a one-word explanation for his persistence: "pride...
Last December, muttering that he was "sick and tired of banging my head up against a brick wall," John Murchison sold 1,500,000 of the brothers' shares in Alleghany, plus an option on their remaining 1,900,000 to an ally, Minneapolis Financier Berlin Gamble, 65. Gamble took over as Alleghany president and tried to make peace. When Kirby still balked, Gamble backed out. He sold 1,000,000 of his shares to a Kirby ally, Murray Lincoln, president of Nationwide Insurance Co. Last week, acting as a go-between for the Murchison brothers, Gamble sold...