Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Korochnoi, 47, offered the draw after his 45th move, his king taking Karpov's knight...
...cops found no one in the house. The MOVE members had hidden themselves in a corner of the basement. O'Neil then ordered a crane to begin demolishing the house as warnings were shouted over a police loudspeaker for MOVE to surrender. More water was poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead...
...college professors, drunks, and poets from their headquarters-home, located in an area of the city known for its semiradical population largely composed of students and working-class blacks. The police looked forward to this confrontation with this hard-to-define group. They didn't like this organization called MOVE--a name no one has really been able to decipher. The cops thought that MOVE members stank, detested civilization, had no respect for authority, and should be treated harshly as common criminals. One suspects the police were also exhilarated by the drama of the situation: the no-good revolutionary dregs...
...play-acting ended quickly and unexpectedly. After Police Commissioner Joseph O'Neill ordered a bulldozer in to tear down a wooden MOVE-erected barricade, the basement of the three-story house was flooded. There was still no sign of surrender from the enigmatic MOVE members. O'Neill then ordered two dozen members of the special stake-out unit to walk inside and come out with the radicals. As the policemen gingerly walked inside, cries of infants were heard over a loudspeaker that MOVE members had used to hurl invectives at police. MOVE members had long sworn they would not come...
With Milwaukee Brewer ace Mike Caldwell winning his 20th game of the season, tossing a four-hit 2-0 shut-out of the Yankees in Milwaukee, the Sox desperately needed a win over the Tigers in Detroit to move within 1 1/2 games of the league-leading New Yorkers...