Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia University uprising last spring, they were outraged to see obscenities printed on placards or hear them shouted by apparently well-educated, middle-class young men and women. The barrage of epithets helped convince some policemen that their opponents were scarcely human-and they all too often shed their own humanity. Witnesses frequently noted that if a demonstrator being chased by police got away, the cops would simply club whoever else was handy. A Chicago doctor drove up to one officer to report that protesters were dumping trash baskets into the street. The officer snapped: "Listen, you goddam - -, get this...
...help shed the image that the Viet Cong are only jungle fighters in black pajamas, the Front pointedly named a chic woman to head its delegation. She is Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, 41, a member of the N.L.F. Central Committee and vice president of the South Viet Nam Woman's Liberation Union. A lifelong revolutionary who was first jailed by the French in 1950 for leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo...
Returning to Zell six months later, they clipped their way through a barbed-wire fence, broke into a storage shed and dragged out a Sidewinder missile. An air-to-air heat-seeking weapon used by American planes in Viet Nam, the Sidewinder is about 9½ ft. long and weighs 165 Ibs. Undaunted, the trio trundled the missile to their car in a wheelbarrow, broke the car's rear window to fit the rocket in, wrapped a rug around its protruding end, and drove more than 100 miles across West Germany to an undisclosed city...
...railway employees raced to put out the fires, riot police assembled in the darkness down the tracks and charged. They were met but not stopped by a shower of rocks. The sound of staves flailing against police shields and batons banging on plastic helmets echoed through the train shed. Bodies rolled in hand-to-hand combat. The battered and bleeding were carted off by rescue squads of both sides...
...July 20, somebody fired a shotgun at the Tucson home of Anthony Tisci, a son-in-law of Sam ("Momo") Giancana, commander of the 300-man Cosa Nostra army in Chicago. Then dynamite destroyed a shed at the Grace Ranch, the property of Pete Licavoli, aging chieftain of Detroit's Mafia. On the night of July 22, a bomb thrown onto Joe Bananas' patio blew out part of a wall. All the buildings that have been attacked belong to Bonanno henchmen and acquaintances...