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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grunting through a rainy afternoon, the Pigs triumphed over the Goats by a score of 19-0 at Eastern Michigan University, winning the cherished Pig Bowl trophy-a slop pail. The real winners, however, were needy children of the Ann Arbor area. Some 3,000 tickets were sold for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fuzz with Humor | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

The latest battle between Panthers and police erupted in Los Angeles last week. It came against a background of continuing racial enmity, worsened by last May's re-election of Mayor Sam Yorty over black Councilman Tom Bradley. At 5:30 a.m. last Monday, two Panther offices and one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Police And Panthers: Growing Paranoia | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

According to police, four Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) men knocked on the door, announced who they were and set to work at once with the battering ram. The door burst open on the third swing. In the police version, the SWAT team stumbled into a hail of automatic-weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Police And Panthers: Growing Paranoia | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

The police insist that they opened fire only after they were greeted with a 12-gauge shotgun shell through the closed front door. To the Chicago Tribune, which he praised for its "accurate, fair and balanced account," Hanrahan gave "exclusive" photographs that the newspaper said showed a hole in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Police And Panthers: Growing Paranoia | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Skeptical newsmen revisited the apartment and discovered that they could find no sign of the shotgun shell in the hallway outside the front door; that the bullet-riddled door led to a bedroom, not to the bathroom; and that the doorjamb "holes" were actually nail heads. Headlined the rival Sun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Police And Panthers: Growing Paranoia | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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