Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this background, he was picked by the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to head a study of the clashes between cops and civilians during the Democratic Convention in Chicago last August. No one could suspect Walker of pro-hippie bias; so his report...
The police themselves were prone to rumors, sometimes spread by their own intelligence reports. Before clearing Lincoln Park on Tuesday night, the cops heard that the demonstrators were armed with sharpened spears and at least one shotgun, and that they had strung piano wire from tree to tree at neck...
The report amply supports a fact long known to lawyers: witnesses of the same event seldom describe it the same way. A Grant Park clash between police and demonstrators began when half a dozen burly young men lowered the American flag and hoisted another object to the top of the...
Police are not normally apt to be shocked by four-letter words. But, as in the Columbia University uprising last spring, they were outraged to see obscenities printed on placards or hear them shouted by apparently well-educated, middle-class young men and women. The barrage of epithets helped convince...
Angry reaction quickly spread to Cairo and Alexandria, forcing authorities to close down Egypt's six universities and 14 other schools of higher education. In the capital, 1,000 Cairo University students were driven back when they armed themselves with bricks and palm branches and charged police barricades blocking...