Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...images of the raid--helmeted officers swinging billy clubs at students, blood spilled on the sidewalks of Harvard Yard--brought even moderate students into open conflict with the administration...
...that the meager light was being supplied by a weak portable generator. The sense of abandonment and homelessness was aggravated by the piles of dirty, blackened snow along the sides of the dark streets. It hadn't been like that before. Where were the streetlights? Where had the stately yard keepers, who used to clean Moscow, disappeared...
Someone on the steps broke the sign, and Harvard police officers took him away, as many in the crowd shouted. "NoNazis!" The police frisked the man and made himleave the Yard...
...already light. The streets were deserted. Many thoughts ran through my mind. I thought of my optimistic conversation with Professor Lipset during the afternoon in the Yard. 'If the administration just plays it cool, maybe Harvard can turn the tide and be the first school to defeat the New Left.' He answered, "The question is whether they will be stupid enough to call the cops...
Recognizing that the vast expanse of tax-free buildings the University was using for educational purposes could be put to far more profitable uses, Vellucci proposed a variety of "creative" measures to combat Harvard. Among the less well-received proposals of 1968 was Vellucci's plan to bulldoze Harvard Yard to make way for a bus depot...