Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Providence, violence erupted following a civil rights rally at a shopping center in a predominantly Negro neighborhood. When hundreds of Negro youths began pegging rocks, beer cans and bottles at nine policemen who were keeping an eye on them, a phalanx of 48 other policemen stationed near by because of rumors of trouble quickly broke up the crowd from behind gladiatorlike shields, arresting 22 youths...
...trained to use guns as soon as he was old enough to hold them?and so were his brothers. "I'm a fanatic about guns," says his father, Charles A., 47. "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns." Charlie could plug a squirrel in the eye by the time he was 16, and in the Marine Corps he scored 215 points out of a possible 250, winning a rating as a sharpshooter, second only to expert. In the Marines, though, he also got busted from corporal to private and sentenced to 30 days' hard labor for illegal...
Since the airline strike began last month, it has developed into a logistical nuisance and an economic drag. Last week it also became a political hot potato. By turning down the agreement worked out for them by their own national leadership under President Johnson's scrutinous eye, 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists put the U.S. Government in an uncomfortable position. As has happened in the past with striking railroaders, the contract defeat left the Government no choice except to act. But in an election year, when politicians of all stripes are exceedingly sensitive about...
...second quarter reports turned in by U.S. corporations, Zenith Radio Corp.'s is one of the most eye-popping. Earnings were up by an astronomic 85%, to $7,497,000, over the same period last year; sales rose by 60% to $146,816,000. Most of the rise was due to exploding demand for the company's color television sets; in fact, sales of Zenith's color TV receivers alone surpassed the corporation's total consolidated sales for the second quarter of only two years...
Comet Kilston -- the discoverer always gets the comet named after him -- too faint to be seen by the naked eye, and will probably remain invisible. With telescope, it can be picked up in the southern sky at mid-evening, seemingly moving to the southeast...