Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond Dixie. Yet if the U.S. North thought it could view the South's spectacle with any complacency, it was wrong. The Negro revolt had burst all regional boundaries. In Philadelphia, Negro pickets battled with helmeted policemen during a week of demonstrations against job discrimination at a school construction site. Knives and broken bottles flashed, more than 20 people were hurt...
Verdicts in Advance. Arrests are almost always violent and without warrants; arresting officers rarely show proof that they are agents of the law, but burst into their quarry's home at night, brush off his explanations, wreck his belongings, pocket his valuables and hustle him off to jail in his underwear. Verdicts, said one court stenographer who took part in many of the trials, are "by remote control," the judge's opinion often written in advance...
...recent mission, the desperate Reds tried to lob hand grenades into the open side doors of the low-circling choppers. When two Hueys tried to box in and capture a fleeing Red guerrilla, he suddenly wheeled and headed straight for them, a hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door of a grass hut, a guerrilla blazed away at a hovering Huey, missed its copilot by only a few inches. The Huey's wingman planted a rocket smack in the doorway...
Though the government has yet to set a date for the election, the costly manifesto suggested that Prime Minister Macmillan intends to go to the people sooner rather than later-perhaps in the fall. Next day the Opposition burst into print with its own long-planned ad campaign featuring a new symbol, a well-knuckled Thumbs Up-the toiler's equivalent of the Tory V-for-Victory gesture-and the slogan: LET'S GO WITH LABOR. The Laborites devoted half of their first bold spread to a picture of Party Leader Harold Wilson-for once without a pipe...
...effects, added ominously that "in more extreme forms it is associated with schizophrenia." Yet he conceded that his warning came only "after considerable wrestling of the spirit." Last year while he was confirming new members at the Holy Innocents' parish in Corte Madera, the clergy and congregation burst into spontaneous singsong. "Dyoso ki-i-yeno mayashi yekatona masi yano ma yenda ya kotani masiki." Pike was perturbed, but he waited to consult a diocesan commission-including a theologian, two psychiatrists, and a parish priest who practices glossolalia-which is preparing a scholarly report on the subject. Then he held...