Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence reported at the scene of the April 10 raid is legendary. According to The Crimson, the officers beat students with billy clubs, in many cases causing scalp wounds and facial cuts. Spectators and members of the press were arrested, and students were threatened...
Cicero, a 1985 graduate of Dartmouth, is uncertain of his future plans, but would prefer to leave the sports scene...
...late 1960s, Cambridge was one of the largest industrial centers in the state. Although the two universities--Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--often dominated the scene, it had never really been a "university city...
...book out at the moment, all of middling quality. The main event is more likely to be, say, a new Simon Brett or Stuart M. Kaminsky, a new Jonathan Valin or Michael Allegretto. These less heralded figures often produce a prose more intense and flavorful, a sense of scene more convincing and a story more tightly wound yet believable than the brand-name superstars. And occasionally an outright newcomer, not hardened thus far by his agent's insistent counsel to repeat what worked before, will come up with a tale that delights by being absolutely original...
...reality that has become commonplace for less exalted residents of Washington. Only six blocks from the gleaming Capitol dome, the Oregon Republican watched as a man 20 yards ahead of him blasted away with a gun at another man. Hatfield zoomed through a red light to flee the scene. He did not call the police. "I assure you if in Washington you tell the police you saw somebody shooting somebody, they'd say, 'So what?' " Hatfield explained...