Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police gave ground, the number of looters grew. "They won't shoot," an eleven-year-old Negro boy said coolly, as a pack of looters fled at the approach of a busload of police. "The mayor said they aren't supposed...
...Negro man walk by, one Guardsman, rifle at the ready, ordered: "You get out of here, boy. Faster, boy. You run out of here." The man had no choice but to accept the humiliation and jog off. A couple and their three friends were ordered to lie on the ground, and then were threatened by more than a dozen Guardsmen armed with automatic weapons. Lieut. General John L. Throckmorton, the Army paratroop commander who took control of the Guardsmen when they were federalized, was asked what he thought of them. "Look," he pleaded...
...night sticks held low, advanced silently on scores of rioters gathered on Third Avenue. Without striking a blow, they broke through the mob's ranks and stopped it cold. Then the T.P.F.s split into small teams, scattering the mob down side streets. Other T.P.F.s took the "high ground," the rooftops, in search of snipers. "When we have the rooftops and can see all windows on both sides of the street," says the force's commander, Assistant Chief Inspector Charles E. McCarthy, "then we can decide what we want to do next." In three nights of rioting, New York...
Those who boycotted the plebiscite on the ground that it was stacked in favor of continuing Puerto Rico's commonwealth ties and therefore got no votes at all, claimed victory because 34.2% of the island's 1,067,526 registered voters stayed away from the polls. Independence received a minuscule 4,205 votes (.6%), but its advocates felt they had won a victory of sorts because the voters had turned down statehood. Those fighting to make Puerto Rico the 51st state considered their strong showing of 273,315 votes (38.9%) a moral victory. The actual victors, of course...
...Englanders, the world is divided into two parts: New England and elsewhere. Because the Red Sox are the lone baseball team to inhabit this hallowed ground, it has been assumed by local fans that they must be perfect, and that only the cruel workings of fate could prevent them from winning the pennant. Fate has been awfully cruel for the last 20 years...