Word: maces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half of the broken Cairo statue, which had its left arm hanging by its side but no trace of a right arm. The Rochester bust, he remembered, was close in style to the statue of Ny-user-ra in Beirut, and it had its right arm raised gripping a mace...
...related: "There's this woman driving her kid to school when they laid a big log over her car. Out she gets with a can of Mace and lets them have it right in the kisser. One of them said, 'You can't do that, lady. That stuff is illegal.' " Although the level of violence was fairly low on both sides, some protesters did throw rocks and bottles at police, and a few cops bloodied heads unnecessarily. Overall, Washington police showed exemplary discipline; a less well trained, less tightly controlled force could have brought about...
Police scattered a crowd of about 1500 there, but the marchers regrouped and gained more supporters as they headed for George Washington University. The march swelled in size to about 5000 persons before riot-equipped officers used nightsticks and mace to restore order...
...solidarity is too ferociously antimale to be borne by anything except, perhaps, an all-girl audience. ("Get your gun, honey. Don't be afraid to kill the soldiers when they come.") Pride of Women, in fact, so enraged the clientele at a Louisville bar that the manager sprayed Mace at the group, which fled outside, only to find that an off-duty policeman had riddled their truck's fenders with bullets...
...evil, or a ritual killing of the hothead who breaks away from Caine and attempts to destroy the village. He charges at the Captain, brandishing a battleaxe; his target calmly raises a pistol, and fires at his groin. A child strikes the felled warrior two glancing blows with a mace; the villagers look on. The rebel dies in agony...