Word: truncheon
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...Bread, education, freedom!" thousands of students, many of them carrying clubs, surged through downtown Athens, where they started fires and tied up traffic. Some used appropriated buses as barricades, from which they peppered police with fruit and stones. In Constitution Square, students were met by a massive force of truncheon-swinging riot police and clouds of tear gas. In scenes that to some observers seemed like a re-enactment of the Costa-Gavras film Z, some police kicked and bludgeoned the demonstrators, while others fired machine guns into the air to scatter the student mobs...
...universities. As usual, Mrs. Helen Suzman, the tiny Progressive Party's only Member of Parliament, had an answer for the government. The Prime Minister, she told a meeting in Cape Town, was "by nature a policeman himself-never so happy as when he was, metaphorically speaking, wielding a truncheon." The trouble between students and government could hardly be settled, she added, as long as the ruling National Party continued to insist that the demonstrations were "engineered by Communists and subversives...
...David E. Callison, 46, a Portland, Ore., cop for 22 years, has spent hours nose-to-nose with campus protesters and watched many a truncheon thudding against student skulls. So one day last spring Callison was both alarmed and relieved to learn that his 22-year-old daughter Liz, a senior at the University of Oregon, had just survived her first sit-in demonstration unscathed and spent a night in jail for trespass. "All we wanted was a chance to talk to the president of the university," she said. "We waited peacefully for 36 hours. When the police came...
...Raised Truncheon. As he headed for his car to go home, Barkley noticed a crowd beginning to stampede, followed by a surging blue line of helmeted, jump-suited riot police. He tried to leave, but a young cop raised his truncheon to strike him. "Son, if you touch me with that," Barkley warned him, "you've touched the wrongest man in Palo Alto...
...first articulate hippie. They are deliberate outcasts in search of saintly goodness, and their symbol, Kitty Duval (Susan Tyrrell), the stock prostitute with the heart of gold, has a luminous inner purity. When cops enter the bar and beat the black jazz pianist bloody, the scene has a truncheon-like impact that was totally lacking in 1939, when such events seemed isolated from any social context with which the audience was familiar. In those days, Saroyan was known as the "crazy man" of the theater. Now it seems more as if he had the intuitive sanity of a seer...