Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snoopy Sweatshirt. Violence is a fact of life to the children of West 116th Street, but in the weeks just before his death, Walt had more than his share. Earlier this month, someone dropped a brick on his head, and the wound had to be stitched. A few days later he was hit by a car, suffering scratches and bruises. A week after that, he fell from a fire escape...
...shotguns, AR-15 rifles, tear-gas grenades, satchel charges, one helicopter, 6-ft. steel battering rams, a National Guard armored personnel carrier, and a fire department "jet-ax" used to cut through the roof of burning buildings. The principal target was Panther headquarters, a two-story brown-and-white brick building at 41st Street and Central Avenue. There, the battle raged for four hours and 45 minutes...
...About 40 Cliffies and 50 Dunster men have agreed to participate in a coed living exchange, but official approval of the plan remains uncertain. The proposal differs from those already approved in that men will move into Radcliffe's off-campus houses and the Jordan cooperatives instead of the brick dorms...
Dunster may also try to arrange exchanges with the Radcliffe brick dorms, said Mark Kaplan '71, another of the exchange organizers. He said that this would be necessary since some of the Cliffies interested now have one-room doubles in the off-campus houses, Dunster men refuse to move move into these rooms, Kaplan said...
...after the massacre and it ripped away his foot, he screamed: "God has punished me for what I did in the village." Other men of the company have recurrent nightmares about My Lai. The scene itself is quiet now. All that remains today is a low pile of red-brick rubble, scorched black by fire and surrounded by fields filled with graves...