Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy ruby-glass ashtray flew off a desk and sprayed shards over the floor. Outside, both panes of a mock-up storefront were smashed, a glass window in a trailer caved in, and 16 out of 90 panes in a small greenhouse were shattered. The plane had come in at about 650 m.p.h., just over the speed of sound. Distressed FAA officials estimated the overpressure at 25 Ibs. to 40 Ibs. per square foot, but there was no way to be sure; they had already turned off their test equipment. What was scientifically certain was that a big enough boom...
Negroes hurled bricks and bottles from rooftops, smashed the 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...
...take over the White House. Their triumph would be achieved through the candidacy of Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding, the handsome Babbitt from Marion, Ohio. Republicans all over the nation were rooting for him, and in his own home town on the day that Harding, 54, opened his campaign, every storefront in the community was ablaze with bunting...
...Every storefront but one, that is. It was the Uhler-Phillips department store, and, as William Allen White wrote years later, "when the reporters asked about it, they heard one of those stories about a primrose detour from Main Street." According to the gossip, Nominee Harding, long since married to a domineering, unattractive woman, had been treading the primrose path with Mrs. Carrie Phillips, wife of one of the owners of the store. She was a tall, willowy redhead, the best-looking woman in town, and about a dozen years Harding's junior-but the less said about...
Roving mobs of cold, bored teenagers swarmed over Clacton's pier, smashing windows, overturning cars, stealing liquor. Pistol in hand, one youth used a big storefront window for target practice. When a local type admonished the rioters, he was tossed over a 20-ft. bridge. Clacton police called for reinforcements from a neighboring town, fought pitched battles with the teenagers, many of whom were armed with ax handles and furniture legs. Finally the bobbies restored order: over 60 youths were arrested on charges ranging from burglary to assault...