Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squats just inside the Florida line, in the company of Noma and Esto and Miller Crossroads, like a turtle broiling in the oppressive Florida Panhandle. The monotonous inland heat is broken only by occasional swirls of wind which lift the fine sand from the sidewalks and scatter it against the weathered frame buildings. Along Brown Street, the main drag, ragged white farmers and mute Negroes sprawl on benches propped against the buildings in the shade of awnings. There is not much for them to do except read the Dothan (Ala.) Eagle or dip snuff or watch the tractors or pray...
...will scatter the Commies...
...have to leave. When the demonstrators refused, army tanks and soldiers, reinforced by the city police, forced the people out of the Zocalo. They left screaming, "Mexico Freedom." When the people were out on the street they decided to march to the University. The army, however, was determined to scatter the mob, and did so by chasing them down the street with clubs, rifle butts and bayonets. Rifles and machine guns were used to fire into the crowd. Wounded or hurt bodies were run over by the tanks in their pursuit. Men and women alike were clubbed, beaten and wounded...
...Which way do we scatter when they come...
After Commencement '68, many Harvard seniors will lose their 2-S student draft deferements, and the war in Vietnam will scatter them across the nation and the world. Fifty years ago, Commencement had just the opposite effect, serving as the first reunion for the Class of 1918--which had already been scattered by the First World...