Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A radicalizing experience is often something like getting your head bashed in by cops, or watching your friends get their heads bashed in by cops. Or else it can be watching something fail, as Harvard's Student-Faculty Advisory Council has failed.
Cops drifted through the crowd sniffing like bloodhounds on the scent, but most of those who were so inclined had come stoned--it would have been almost crass to light up in public. By and large, however, the police seemed to be breaking in a new summer approach. They were...
Forty Abreast. The country's major labor unions opened the week with an illegal but half-successful one-day general strike. More than half a million Frenchmen-led by student militants who were joined by workers, teachers and opposition politicians-staged one of the largest protest marches in Paris...
IT IS AN odd kind of war you must wage when you are not even allowed to dirty your hands. But that is what we were told to do. Keep it clean for Gene. The staff was cynical, but serious about it. Indiana was confused. Its primary had never before...
At 4:00 a.m. the cops come in. The eight of us sit down on the stairs (which we've made slippery with green soap and water) and lock arms. The big cop says don't make it hard for us or you're gonna get hurt. We do not...