Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University police kept the crowd back from the entry, but every time the firemen threw something out, students cheered and rushed forward to kick it and take a closer look...
Five fire trucks arrived at 9:25. The smoke had driven out 15 or 20 students from F and G entries and had attracted a crowd of almost 100. Firemen with gas masks pulled a hose up the stairwell inside while others propped a ladder outside against the window...
...Firemen pulled hoses across the Holyoke Center plaza, into the bank building and downstairs to extinguish the burning refuse. They brought the fire under control almost immediately...
...Including power tools, die presses, diesel engines, certain metals and industrial chemicals-as well as corset stays and hog troughs, firemen's hats and bathtub stoppers, arsenic and lace, popcorn and canned hominy...
...spark: the shooting of a Negro by white police. In St. Louis, youthful Negroes on the western edges of the downtown district demonstrated for six nights after an armed-robbery suspect was shot to death, breaking the windows of autos and buildings, pitching stones and bottles at policemen, stoning firemen who replied to false alarms-and all the while shouting "Black power...