Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staying calm is an utter necessity--but that doesn't mean blinding ourselves to the facts. To suppose that strict sanctions against the Soviet Union (not a militaristic response at all) would assure that the world would be a less safe place to be is asinine. Just as the schoolyard bully will do as no one puts his foot down and stands up to him, so will the Soviet Union do as it please until we do something...
...conflict came to a head when Mkhize called a public meeting in the yard of Driefontein's school buildings to discuss the issue. Holding a bullhorn, Mkhize delayed his introductory speech to the 300 people present, waiting for more to arrive. Suddenly, a police van roared into the schoolyard and screeched to a halt. Flanked by a black officer, Police Constable J.A. Nienaber, a white, declared that the gathering was illegal. When no one moved, he threw a tear-gas canister into the crowd and then struck Mkhize in the face. The angry crowd surged toward the police, jostling...
...liked booze and died at 33. They laid him out in the living room. Russell was five. The Depression began to howl. His mother took him and a sister to live with relatives in Newark and later in Baltimore. The world became a gray hell of treeless streets and schoolyard bullies. But Baker had a platoon of entertaining uncles. There was Uncle Hal the blowhard, who turned up en route he said, to a major business deal involving "a forest full of walnut of the finest, rarest quality. Its location was known only to him. He would need great cleverness...
With the summer recess only weeks away, three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut got a jump on the opposition last week, with an old schoolyard activity, double dutch. (You know, when the two ropes are going in opposite directions.) Congressman William Ratchford, 48, tried his hand, er, feet, while colleagues Samuel Gejdenson, 34, and Barbara Kennedy, 46, waited their turns. "I could practice for the next 40 years and not be able to double jump," says Ratchford, who had difficulty with but one rope. It's safer inside the halls of Congress where the risks of getting tripped...
...head with the gun in his left hand and Victor in the back of the head with the gun in his right hand. He fired once more into each head. He stuffed the guns into his belt and dove out of the Lincoln on the street side, so schoolyard kids would...