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Word: crowbar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full-scale model of the Alamo itself and the lavish staging of a full-hour battle sequence. A large part of the film is offensive, but much of it is exciting and fun, and it is worth watching if only to see John Wayne get skewered on a crowbar by one of Santa Ana's mean minions. It is something many of us have wanted to do for years, and it provides much vicarious pleasure, although you have to wait until Friday and Part II to see it. Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 7/31/1973 | See Source »

...Times Square. An "executioner" pulled back the head of each and held a knife to his throat. Elsewhere in D yard, grim convicts, taking up similar positions be side each of the other hostages, poised as if to kill them with either a knife or crowbar. Oswald turned to aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

After the women left the building, a handful of Harvard policemen gathered around the locked door until a Cambridge plainclothesman broke into the building with a crowbar. One Cambridge police detective, afraid the door was sabotaged, warned a Harvard patrolman, "Be careful when you open the door. I wouldn't put anything past those bastards...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Chanting Women Vacate Building To Avoid Rumored Bust by Police | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

...show of force by the hardhats remained free of violence-but only barely. During one parade on the Avenue of the Americas, Ironworker Thomas Francis Gibbon, 43, waded into a crowd on the sidewalk when he saw some onlookers flashing the V peace sign. Gibbon grabbed his crowbar from his side and shouted: "You goddam Commie bastards!" Brandishing the crowbar, he advanced on one man in a business suit, who chose to retreat. "You goddam coward!" Gibbon yelled after him. "You don't know what an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Sudden Rising of the Hardhats | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

...members, Bert H. Weiss. a student at Northeastern, last night denied a police charge that they forced the school's front door with a crowbar. Police had said that they found a crowbar along with posters and paste in front of the school...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Police Arrest Four Members of NAC On Breaking and Entering Charge | 4/9/1970 | See Source »

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