Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unto himself. For a man with experience in police work, he took an extraordinarily simplistic line about the Chicago cops' performance during the Democratic National Convention. "The police and the National Guard were faced with vicious attacking mobs who gave them no alternative but to use force to prevent these mobs from accomplishing their destructive purposes," Hoover told the commission...
...controversy. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade was heard arguing that both demonstrators and police were guilty of excesses. Yet most of the footage chosen was shot from behind police lines. Not once did it suggest that dozens of police removed their badges and name tags to prevent identification and then assaulted demonstrators, newsmen and bystanders...
...standing still over," and connotes amazement or dread of supernatural forces beyond one's control. Rationalists scorn superstition as a hangover of primitive man's obsolete interpretations of the world. Indeed, nothing seems sillier nowadays than rituals like knocking on wood or chanting "God bless you!" (to prevent the sneezer's soul from flying away). Even so, modern behavioral scientists respect superstition as an enduring expression of the human need to master the inexplicable. "One man's superstition is another's religion," contends Anthropologist...
Says Margaret Mead: "Superstitions reflect the keenness of our wish to have something come true or to prevent something bad from happening. The half acceptance and half denial accorded superstitions give us the best of both worlds...
July 27-31 saw large-scale efforts at organizing high school students to protest the police brutality. Pressure was applied on the government by seizing public buses and building road blocks near the schools to prevent the police from coming near the high schools. More police brutality ensued. Students started sleeping over-night in the schools to keep the police out. On August 1 at 2 a.m., the Mexican army surrounded one of the high schools. The more than 100 students sleeping there were told to leave. When they refused, an army bazooka was used to blow open...