Word: squads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line of car lights signaled the coming of the police. There were 40 cars in all, including 24 radio-equipped squad cars and a bus-sized Black Maria loaded with 40 policemen and supplies of tear gas, submachine guns, automatics and carbines...
Night Patrol. Squad cars patrolling the quieted town brought back word that some of the strikers were hiding out in the basement of the church of Saint-Aimé. Inspector-General Norbert L'Abbé, commanding the police, issued orders to round them up. A squad of 100 police entered the church, in the basement found seven young strikers who started defending themselves with homemade clubs. They were overpowered and led, bleeding and beaten, to the Black Maria. All night long, more & more strikers, picked up in their homes and on the streets, were loaded into the patrol wagon...
Playing the first half of its game at Springfield in clouds of dust stirred up at every step, and the last half in a semitropical Connecticut rainstorm, the lacrosse team fought its way through the elements and a tough Springfield squad to win, 7 to 6, Saturday...
...rest of the team played its worst golf of the season, but managed to grab sixth place in the 25-squad field. Boston College broke the course record with a 293 score-an average tournament for the second year...
Thursday the squad indulged with gusto in the most vigorous scrimmage...