Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crash of brick through window glass, the crackle of the incendiary's witch's torch, the scream of sirens and the anvil chorus of looters. Yet one sound was remarkable in its very diminuendo. The fierce fusillades of gunfire that exacerbated the disorders of years past were heard only rarely last week. And considering the specter of anarchy looming over every U.S. city, the nation weathered its April agony with remarkable aplomb...
...Stars Curtis McClinton and Buck Buchanan (both black), cooled the crowd. But then, as the youngsters began boarding buses, Kansas City police responded to a thrown pop bottle with a popping of tear-gas bombs. During the rock concert itself, officers investigating a report of a glass-breaking incident heard the tumult from the church basement and hurled tear gas inside, routing the kids. That added fuel to a rampage resulting in 250 fires, $500,000 damage in looting and burning, 65 injuries and six deaths-all of them Negroes shot by cops...
...There is heard from time to time a great Noise, which rumbles and grumbles with definite menace. When they hear the Noise, mother, father, daughter and maid move upstairs one more flight, to get away from...
Nothing Quite Like It. Even those who had been forewarned were caught off guard. "I'm stunned," said Connally. "I didn't think it would happen." Humphrey, who heard the speech on the radio at U.S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman's Mexico City home, said: "This is a very sad moment for me." Muriel wept. The next morning, when Humphrey showed up with red-rimmed eyes to address U.S. residents in Mexico, he quipped: "It's smog. I had no idea you were so close to Los Angeles...
...leggiest of World War II pinups and famed as Babe Williams in 1954's The Pajama Game. "This is the show I've been waiting for all my life!" said Janis, and the first performance proved her right. "I never realized what an ovation meant until I heard what happens at Mame," she sighed...