Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other personnel in a corporate office. Across the bay, in East Oakland, two other Jesuits are immersed in work among the city's many minorities: the old, the poor, the black, the brown. They may be out on the streets by 7 a.m., checking to see that a wrecker has shown up to knock down an unsafe building, or be battling until 3 in the morning at a neighborhood meeting...
...with an even more dubious one. Nixon was trying to build "a palace for the privileged few," said McGovern. Rather than tear anything down, the Democrats want to "restore that temple to the ancient truths." They both sounded like a couple of metaphysical contractors. High time to take the wrecker's ball to that sort of thing...
...Eventually he got his way, and in 1960 the city gave him $60,000-revenue from subway chewing gum machines. Crisis followed crisis, but in 1971 he persuaded the city to buy the former Astor Library, a beautiful piece of Italian Renaissance Victoriana that had been destined for the wrecker's ball, and lease it to him for $ 1 a year...
Last week St. Louis' city planners got an official O.K. for their proposal to demolish two eleven-story units in Pruitt-lgoe, a mammoth low-rent black housing project located a few blocks from St. Louis' downtown section. Eventually the wrecker's ball will level most of the 31 other buildings...
...Cabinet is already drawing up new laws to replace the War Measures Act, so as to permit more effective action against civil disorders. With its May 1968 upheaval in mind, France has beefed up its police force, and enacted a tough new anti-demonstration measure known as the "anti-wrecker's law." Under the law, police can arrest anyone standing in sight of an unlawful demonstration...