Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given the amount of shooting, it was amazing that nobody was seriously wounded. One bullet hit Sergeant Edward Connors in the back, but he was saved by a flak jacket from anything worse than a bad bruise. By midmorning the guns had fallen all but silent. By early afternoon every plan, gambit and technique tried by the police had failed. They had attempted to bash in the front door. They tried to drill 2-in. holes through the exterior walls in hopes of pumping in tear gas, but were driven away by gunfire from inside the Move house. They tried...
...that jolted readers with apocalyptic headlines. If newsprint could talk, the Post would be the loudest paper in the country. A rambunctious student upsets a teacher? Read all about it in last Wednesday's edition under MOTORMOUTH MENACE MADE ME QUIT. If the Post had not been so uncharacteristically silent about its possible fate last week, its front-page story might have been headlined AUSSIE NO LONGER OUR BOSSIE? WHAT NEXT...
...Club members locked him into the Lowell JCR, keeping other students out, in yet another act of provocation. Following the lead of the SYL, student protesters decided that Hoppenstein should gain the experience of thousands of Black and white South Africans jailed in hell-hole prisons. Linking arms in silent protest, the students formed a blockade, planning to make Hoppenstein sweat until at least midnight...
...donation to Nixon through his confidante. Bebe Rebozo Put simply, he paranoid Nixon--afraid that O'Brien would reveal the Nixon-Hughes connection - arranged for burglars to read the Democratic Party's Watergate headquarters and find dirt on O'Brien which could be used to keep him silent...
...Africa is going to do anything." An acquaintance of mine made these remarks after the recent spate of campus protests about university investments in firms doing business in South Africa. His tone was less hostile than incredulous; why are so many students willing to strike for divestment while remaining silent or inactive during, say, the recent Presidential election...