Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those Who Love, Stone...
...rioting spread to other rice-short parts of India. A 15-year-old student died of gunshot wounds after police fired on a mob attacking a police station near Calcutta to protest food shortages. Not far away, in the West Bengal town of Baduria, police fired on a stone-throwing mob of 3,000 rioters who were demanding the release of rice supplies; one rioter was reported killed, and five rioters and several policemen were hurt...
...What with its dazzling array of drugs, chewing gum, model airplanes and racks full of Playboy, the delights of Le Drugstore are inexhaustible. But now there is a new- and equally exotic- rendezvous: an English pub, inevitably called the Sir Winston Churchill, right there on the Champs Elysees, a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe...
...Lumley and his diggers uncovered the remains of a structure about 60 ft. by 20 ft., which contained two fireplaces. Scattered about were pieces of charred wood and the bones of rabbits, boars, Elephas antiquus (the ancestors of mammoths), deer antlers, stone carving tools, and even fossilized human excrement, which, the archaeologist says, is "extremely rare...
...Allied captors at Nürnberg, the Field Marshal seemed to be the essence of all that was evil in Junkerdom. Tall and taciturn, a monocle screwed tight in one chilly pale eye, his boots gleaming with metronomic precision as he paced the stone floor of his cell, the prisoner never complained and never begged for mercy. When the gallows trap was sprung on Oct. 16, 1946, and Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel dropped to his death, it is doubtful that he had any regrets. Keitel had long before reached the end of his rope...