Word: guards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day, the National Guard opens fire on student demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four and wounding 11. This event fuels student strikes nationwide, which by May 6 have reached 166 campuses...
...must not let down our guard, and we can't be a moral force unless our armed forces are credible," he said...
...their opening statements, the candidates emphasized their achievements and used the opportunity to highlight what many said was a sense that Thompson--a part-time Pforzheimer House security guard and part-time school truant officer--had not represented Cambridge to the best of his ability in his 10 years of service...
...calm but mad," she says. "It was, like, 'I don't care.'" Mikael Nickolauson, a taciturn 17-year-old, was sitting at a table doing his homework when he was shot and killed. Only the day before, he and his fiance had enlisted in the Oregon National Guard. Kinkel continued moving through the crowd, taking aim. As students were hit in their chest, arms, legs and head, their classmates scrambled under the tables or ran screaming for the exits. At one point, Kinkel raised his rifle to Ryan Crowley's face, but he had run out of bullets...
...exhibits little of the kinetic energy that got him to this career pass, although he does have an engaging way of slowly taking over the length of a couch with his rangy 6-ft. 2-in. body--not quite comfortably, not quite uncomfortably, half odalisque, half scrappy point guard diving for the ball. Unlike most people's, his face is more handsome the less animated it is; unlike most movie stars, then, he is better looking in person than onscreen (in another movie era, he could have been a male ingenue, another Ronald Reagan). Put him in front...