Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their grievances. While he was absent, the students calmly remained at his office. Office workers and security guards continued their regular business throughout the building. No seizure had taken place. About fifteen minutes later, police, state troopers and Sheriff's deputies stormed the campus. A state trooper tossed a tear gas canister into a large crowd of black students gathered on the steps of the administration building. The remaining officers fired indiscriminately into the crowd. Amid the terror of shotgun blasts, two black youths fell dead...
Counting Dollars. After the fight, sporting a bloodshot right eye but no other signs of wear and tear, Ali launched his customary volley of verbal jabs. "I told you I was the greatest," he gloated. "I told you this man has no class, no skill, doesn't hit hard. Don't ever match no bull against a master boxer. The bull is stronger but the matador is smarter." Ali did admit that Foreman had stunned him a few times. "I'm experienced," he said. "I can handle that." For his part, a shell-shocked Foreman said quietly...
...place at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On November 16, 1972, a peaceful, unarmed group of black students in front of the Administration Building awaiting the promised arrival of the university President with an answer to their demands was stormed by State Police and Sherriff's deputies with tear gas, rifles, pistols, and shotguns. When the smoke cleared, two black students lay mortally wounded...
Black students who cast off this oppressor's mentality and demand that colleges provide facilities and services for the benefit of black communities will meet calculated resistance, ranging from evasive double talk to tear gas and M-16's depending upon the degree to which the student body is expendable to the state. The administration of Southern University consistently lied to black students in responding to demands for more black control of college programs; when they ran out of lies, they used guns to counteract increasing student unity. The administration of Harvard University has lied to its black students, also...
...them was found to contain a wadded up clipping from an old article which appeared in The Crimson of 1929. It told of how H. Wadsworth Billings III had scored the final touchdown in the Junior Varsity's dramatic 14-13 win over the Navy J. V. s. A tear froze...