Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday unarmed soldiers in shirtsleeves made a desultory pass at dispersing the crowds but quickly turned back. By Saturday afternoon, however, the mood changed. At 2 p.m. troops popped tear-gas shells and beat up people trying to stop them from moving into the center of Beijing. An hour later, behind the Great Hall of the People, helmeted soldiers began lashing out at students, bystanders and other citizens who, as if summoned by some irresistible call to the barricades, rushed to the district by the thousands. Soldiers stripped off their belts and used them to whip people; others beat anyone...
...About 60 Law School students protest the school's absence of Hispanic faculty members. The demonstration occurs exactly one year after members of the Black Law Students Association held a 24-hour sit-in to protest the dearth of Black professors...
...protesters marched and distributed leaflets for nearly an hour in the rain, while hundreds of graduating seniors and their families gathered nearby for yesterday's Class Day ceremonies...
Although the symposium was titled "Free Speech and the First Amendment," the five journalists and politicians spent the hour-and-a-half chatting about current events in a discussion moderated by Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller...
After our one-hour converstaion, did I fully understand why this student, almost exactly my age, was returning to China against all advice...