Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...windows of the police cars. Rioters ran through the streets, shattered virtually every storefront window in a four-square-mile area. Looters dashed into the stores, grabbed racks of clothing, cases of liquor, groceries, furniture-anything they could move. They overturned cars, set fires, burned down a hat shop. Burglar alarms rang constantly...
With the approval of the two governments, Tshombe's chief agents had set up shop in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Identically worded want ads ran simultaneously under three headings (Vacancies, Opportunities, Business) in major newspapers. In Salisbury, recruiters passed slips of paper reading "55715" to nightclub loners, whispering to them to "Ring that number, Jack, and you'll be all right...
Blasted Windows. Even so, Miami got ample warning that a big blow might be near. Nevertheless, the citizens on Florida's Gold Coast were so nonchalant that hotel and shop windows were unboarded, luxury yachts still at their moorings when Cleo struck. Sucking up energy from the Gulf Stream and being carried along by a fast-moving upper air mass, Cleo hit Miami full force. It was the first time in 14 years that a hurricane had done that, and many new Miamians will be talking about Cleo 14 years hence. It bent palm trees to the ground, crumpled...
Americans are the world's greatest travelers, and the nation's money and know-how are even more peripatetic than its citizens. Bolstered by continued prosperity at home, more U.S. firms than ever are setting up shop abroad, building new plants, expanding old ones and buying into foreign companies. Last week the Commerce Department announced that private U.S. investment abroad-investments in plant and equipment, bank credits, stocks and bonds -rose by $6.3 billion in 1963 to a record $66.4 billion. Already this year, the foreign investment stake of U.S. industry has risen beyond $68 billion, and Commerce...
...been roughed up by Dixmoor Liquor Store Owner Michael ("Big Mike") LaPota, 52, a 265-lb. ex-con. Soon the story spread through Dixmoor and into the neighboring town of Harvey. A crowd of Negroes gathered in a parking lot across the street from LaPota's shop, chanting to the accompaniment of bongos, "Big Mike must go!" For hours, Negro rabble-rousers harangued the mob with inflammatory speeches. Someone threw a rock through the closed liquor store's window, and the mob followed, snatching up bottles. Dixmoor's ten-man police force called for help...