Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, the dread myth that he had created about his moment of departure had been dispelled. France simply no longer feared the "deluge" that De Gaulle so often promised would follow him. FRANCE CONTINUES, headlined a Marseille paper when the moment finally arrived, but no one any longer doubted that France would. On the night of the referendum, there were some sharp, ugly scenes in the Latin Quarter between police and students, but they were largely provoked by the flics, as though attempting to incite the Gaullist prophecy into reality. If that was the aim, it failed. France accepted...
...commit crimes is a proper matter for public print. In a crusade against street crime, the News runs a daily box score of such attacks and provides details of the worst of them in adjoining stories that identify the race of the assailants. Most of them are Negroes. The paper's critics contend that the crusade overplays black crime and feeds racial hatreds. The protesters cite front-page stories that appeared in the News for six days about a policeman's son fatally stabbed by a Negro; only one inside story appeared when a black man was killed...
...that a Haitian minister was a pin-ball addict who had the tilt sign turned off whenever he played--were never reported. Back in Washington for a few months, he finally left for the Trib after "covering about my fourth sewer hearing." In '62, he joined the New York paper as a writer-illustrator, pleased to discover it had retained its old-fashioned, friendly newsroom with its twenties atmosphere...
...ought not now, many years overdue, be eliminated from Harvard curriculum altogether." Dean Glimp, who knows all about young Mungo, wrote a memorandum of advice to Dean Ford: "I'm virtually sure Mungo is the professional protester who was either president of the student body or editor of the paper at Boston University last year. He is a tough customer--according to some B.U. administrators who were chuckling last summer about exporting their number one problem...
...think it was arson because one chair was piled on top of another, paper placed under them, and the fire started--that's not accidental," Moriarty said. He added, "This building is very, very easy to get into--all you need is a jackknife...