Word: policia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jittery police lost their heads. Brandishing heavy rubber truncheons, they laid open heads, clubbed shoulders, thumped backs. Amazed, then aroused, the students fought back with bricks, branches torn from trees, even shoes snatched off their own feet. Bystanders joined in, seizing the chance to strike at the hated Policia Armada. For two hours the fight raged, subsiding on one street corner to flare up on another. Some 80 demonstrators and 20 police were wounded...
...obliging stranger threw an arm around his shoulder, pointed up-and sure enough, Dario thought he discerned a white globelike shape floating by. When his gaze returned earthward, he saw the stranger disappearing around the corner. Dario slapped the pocket where his wallet had been and began to yell: "Policia, policia...