Word: crowbarring
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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...
...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...
...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...
Bigness Has Its Price. Thomas Jones Woodward, son of a coal miner, had an inauspicious start in his home town of Pontypridd, Wales. Trying to stay out of the mines as a youth, he chose instead to crowbar his way into movies, drink with the boys and fight in the streets. That was a far cry from his younger days when his mother would take him to the women's guild or the grocery store to warble popular songs like Ghost Riders in the Sky. Tom had to answer for every song to the fellows in the back alley...
...heart and it went right through him." Some victims were less cooperative, such as the one many years ago described by Anthony Boiardo, son of Ruggiero ("the Boot") Boiardo: "The Boot hit him with a hammer. The guy goes down and he comes up. So I got a crowbar this big, Ray. Eight shots in the head. What do you think he finally did to me? He spit...