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...stubbly field, a crowd in gas masks and padding masses, many carrying shields with "NLF" spraypainted on the front. Across the clearing stand uniformed men with four-foot super-nightsticks in their hands, their backs to the towering construction site that will someday be the Seabrook Nuclear Generating Station. Shields in hand, protesters charge, slashing at the fence with boltcutters, tugging at it with grappling hooks. A stream of mace comes from the other side, where National Guard and state police beat at the shields and try to grab the cutters. Within minutes, a pepperfogger arrives and tear gas clouds...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Seabrook: The Vegetable Garden War | 5/27/1980 | See Source »

Suddenly the demonstrator lunges forward, boltcutter in both hands; "Create a diversion," someone has yelled, and he does, poking the tool through the fence, pretending to cut, trying to keep the cop on the spot. The trooper has something in his hands too--a four-foot wooden bat, which he swings with all his might at the cutter. Back and forth they go, five or six times, the protester poking and taunting, like a child at the zoo; the man in the cage white-hot with anger, swinging and screaming. Finally, he stops, and reaches to his side...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Turning the Other Cheek | 5/13/1980 | See Source »

BOSTON--An Air Canada DC-9 jetliner with 42 persons on board lost a four-foot chunk of fuselage over the North Atlantic yesterday, but the aircraft made a safe emergency landing at Logan Airport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jet Returns Safely | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Ultimate has to change a lot more before its counter-culture elements are purged. The mascot for the Middlebury team--known for the relaxed attitudes of its members, is a four-foot high bong...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Harvard Wins One, Loses Two In Ultimate Frisbee Matches | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...scramble on hole four after sailing his approach over the green. He foozled a four-foot birdie putt on five, and lipped out again on ten. He finally got his birdie on the 500-yard par five eleventh when, after booming his drive, he slapped a two iron in a bunker and followed with a semi-explosion shot that ended up stony...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Link Up in Opener | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

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