Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected the Faculty to physically harrass the MP's when they came to arrest the Marine or to taunt them with cries of "Pigs! Pigs!" But, in Cox's words, one expected "something": Faculty members might have made statements of support, or joined the chain which bound Olimpieri to his wife and friends, or brought him food. In short, they might have shared symbolically in the Marine's protest...
...police superintendent for being too soft on the rioters-even though most responsible law officers around the nation commended the Chicago police for their behavior. The mayor compounded his mistake by issuing his approval of shooting looters. The overall effect was to undermine the police department's chain of command and encourage the ranks to react violently at the later civil disturbances. That they...
...Chain-Letter Effect. Those lines have not been published in the Soviet Union. But they are nonetheless read and passed from hand to hand in samiz-dat,* the readers' answer to Soviet censorship. Manuscripts are copied and recopied laboriously by typewriter, since any mechanical reproduction, even mimeograph...
...illegal. Eventually the chain-letter effect produces literally thousands of surreptitious editions of a work. Such copies of the manuscripts of Solzhenitsyn's two most recent novels have inevitably reached the West...
Brief Against Death is a detailed did-I-do-it? Smith's conviction was based on a tight chain of circumstantial evidence. By his own admission, he was with the murdered girl shortly before her death. He also concedes that he slapped her, but from that point on his story differs from that of the prosecution. Smith claims that he left the girl alive. According to the prosecution, he tried to rape her, and then he beat her to death...