Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late in the game the ball was traveling back and forth in a manner reminiscent of a tennis match. The Exonians would stumble downfield with the ball and Crimson fullbacks David Wright and Charlie Lotspeich would boom it right back. When the gun sounded, Getchell huddled his team, told them. "Let's just forget about this one," and led the cheer for the vanquished Exonians...
...outskirts of Los Angeles, the President was standing on the back of his car, making a speech, when police got a tip about a man with a gun. Johnson abruptly got in and sat down; a Secret Serviceman jumped up, brandishing an automatic rifle in the rear seat of the presidential follow-up car, and the motorcade moved away. In Buffalo, police picked up a man holding a rifle at a place where the President was expected to pass...
...started to rejoin his friends who had moved to the other end of the quadrangle during the struggle. But Scanlon drew his gun, grabbed the youth again, led him into the Straus Common Room, and sent a proctor for more police...
...common room, according to another freshman witness, the youth paced for a few minutes as the officer let his gun hang by his side. Soon, however, seeing his friends at the common room door, the pacing youth kicked the gun from Scanlon's hand, "fell on him" with the aid of his friends, subdued him, and fled toward Harvard Square...
Scanlon refused last night to comment on the incident, and deferred to the authority of his sergeant, whose official report did not mention that the officer drew his gun or that the youth flipped and disarmed him. Checked again for confirmation, freshmen who witnessed the incident insisted on all three points...