Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limit last month in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. For five innings he sat in the bullpen and watched with rising ire as the Cards coasted along with a 7-0 lead against his team. Frustration finally got the best of Lee: bellowing like a wounded water buffalo, he charged straight out of the bullpen and attacked St. Louis Pitcher Bob Gibson on the mound. It took all of two seconds for Gibson's teammates to reach the scene - and it took 20 cops ten minutes to break up the battle that ensued. The best that could...
Nashville, Jackson, Boston, Tampa, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Buffalo, Kansas City, Hartford, and any place else where a spark has chanced to touch the volatile emotions of the ghetto...
...outburst particularly terrifying. It seemed to say that a dozen or so people could be killed in almost any city, any night, by the purest chance. In the past three years, racial riots have flared in some 50 U.S. cities, from Harlem to Hough, Chicago to Cincinnati, Boston to Buffalo, Watts to Waukegan. Most began with a vagrant spark, and often it takes nothing more than that...
...damage to 14 shops, a few of which were white-owned; it also brought injuries to 14 of both races. Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City, Mo., and Miami...
...have spawned seven to ten little Arthurs within a year, will supply suggestions for layout and decor, publicity and the presence of such celebrities as herself and Friend Roddy McDowall at openings. No "small towns" need apply. Would-be Arthurians in Asbury Park, N.J. (pop. 17,800), and Buffalo (pop. 481,453) have already been turned down...