Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police smashed a hole in the door of Campos' apartment when he refused to let them in and were immediately fired upon through the opening. Reportedly, over 100 bullets were exchanged in the ensuing fight, Campos and his four companions firing through the shuttered windows on each side of the apartment...
...This Is Real!" At the first sound of gunfire, most Congressmen thought that it was a prank−a string of firecrackers or a cap pistol. The shots pinged everywhere. Two hit the ceiling, nicking off fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
...sergeants and a radio operator, taking walkie-talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene...
...Another of the booklet's profound pronouncements: "If you hang the pan on a hook for storage, it should have a hole for the purpose...
...Among its most elaborate shows in the past were a survey of North American Indian artifacts, which visitors found hardly more savage than Picasso, and arts of the South Seas, which were no more baffling to the general public than Bali's dreams or Henry Moore's hole-in-the-head idols. Yet "Ancient Arts of the Andes," currently on view at the museum, is perhaps the weirdest show in its 25-year history...