Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reported TIME'S Lou Dolinar: "In Brooklyn's middle-class Clinton Hill, black, white and Hispanic homeowners sat on their stoops, sharing cigarettes, candles and flashlights, and occasionally pulling up crabgrass to pass the weary hours before dawn. Half a dozen teenage Italians, armed with baseball bats and iron pipes, helped merchants guard a five-block section of Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. At an A. & P. supermarket in Brooklyn, a burly, 6-ft. 8-in. Jamaican security guard brandished a pearl-handled machete and, with four clerks and the manager, chased away a gang of 30 youths." Many owners armed...
...Bhutto. The Prime Minister took the news stoically, gathered his wife and children on the lawn of the official residence, had coffee and ordered his bags packed. He then moved to the Governor's Mansion in the nearby hill resort of Murree, some 30 miles away. Behind padlocked iron gates, guarded by paratroopers, Bhutto was comfortably confined with an aide and a special shipment of books. The leader of the coup, Pakistan's self-effacing army chief of staff, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, was not even mentioned by name when the government radio interrupted a broadcast with...
Tuesday, July 12--Cross of Iron at 4 and 8:10 and Mean Streets...
...four men were herded into the dingy, second-floor courtroom of Milan's Palace of Justice-handcuffed in pairs and bound together by a dull iron chain. The lone woman defendant walked by herself under the guard of heavily armed carabinieri. Six jurors, headed by a middle-aged woman wearing a shiny new sash in the national colors of red, white and green, nervously took their oaths. Over the shouted objections of the defendants, the presiding magistrate appointed defense attorneys and the trial got under...
When two robbers broke into the Straight Way Iron and Metal Co. in St. Louis, the firm's president, Louis Adelstein, pulled out a gun and started shooting. He hit one of them in the buttock. The other robber grabbed Adelstein's gun and shot him to death...