Word: plate-glass
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...Common even after the first police charge on the Park St. subway stop. Police again charged, wielding their three-foot clubs and driving squad cars to disperse the crowd. Chased into the streets, the Cemonstrators began breaking windows in the apartment buildings and private homes along Charles St. Eight plate-glass windows in store fronts at Beacon and Charles Sts. were broken by rocks thrown by the demon strator-many of them apparently of high school...
...going to smash down all your plate-glass windows...
...wailing. Some of the harried congregation used holy water to rinse their eyes, and one retired government official died the next day of the gas's aftereffects. The words of Archbishop J. J. McCarthy were lost in the shriek of sirens, the lamentations of women, the crash of plate-glass windows. When a rock smashed the windshield of his car, a German bank official drove into a tree and was killed...
...excited crowd swarmed into Prague's Wenceslas Square. One happy hockey fan carried a poster that read BREZHNEV 3, DUBČEK 4. The crowd chanted, "We've beaten you this time!" Someone shouted, "The Russian coach will go to Siberia!" Suddenly a brick smashed through the plate-glass display window at the office of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline. A small group dashed through the opening and began heaving furniture and filing cabinets onto a bonfire in the street. To make matters worse, the dem- onstrations were not confined to Wenceslas Square. Across the country, groups of Czechoslovaks...
While police were pushing the crowd against the hotel front, another body of police in a side street, alerted by a radio call of "policeman in trouble," charged into the flank of the already jam-packed crowd, ultimately forcing a score of people through a plate-glass window...