Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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As a scuffle developed, attending deputies called in a detail of police. "There were 50 people and almost as many cops. We were badly mismatched," William Costley, one of the demonstrators, said.
The confrontation resulted in a partial, though temporary, victory for Cunningham. Movers returned his furniture to the apartment, but police proceeded to arrest him and seven sympathizers on charges of assault and battery on a policeman and rude and disorderly conduct.
"We'll all be found guilty at the January trial. We'll be hit for a bad price on our 'bad' behavior. Rent control isn't real; we'll never see rent control. We're real; we're showing what tenants have to do, but they're trying to break...
Hunneman Realty, manager of much of Harvard's property, also manages Brazao's apartment. "It would be foolish to say that Brazao is a slum lord and therefore should be removed from Hunneman's list because Harvard is one, too," Cunningham said.
THERE WAS a time when, for many of us (particularly bored and wasted students), the release of new Beatles records were the main points of reference by which we remembered the chronologies of our lives. My freshman year was primarily spent waiting for Sgt. Pepper to be released; later there...