Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most spots there was no tension at all. Policemen on the inside assisted protesters to a safe landing, sometimes adjusting ladders to make sure they were secure. "Be careful," they said...
CLAD IN HEAVY, dark blue raincoats, the policemen shifted their feet nervously on the broken asphalt parking lot and peered into the dense forest beyond the barbed wire fence as raindrops splattered about them. Puddles. Lots of them. Cops and reporters, too. Not on mention an 80-per-cent complete atomic power plant. But where were the anti-nuclear protesters, the non-violent commandos who were planning to scale those eight-foot tall barriers and stage a mass-occupation...
...policemen's softball team in Jacksonville is raising money to play in a tournament in New Orleans by selling, for $5 each, pastel T shirts decorated with a drawing of "Old Sparky," the Florida electric chair, and bearing the legend 1 DOWN, 133 TO GO. The reference is to the recent execution of John Spenkelink and the 133 people left on death row in Florida. So far, 2,500 T shirts have been sold and orders-including some from lawyers and judges-have come in from all 50 states and from as far away as Australia...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who will deliver the afternoon commencement address, arrived at Harvard late last night, surrounded by secret service and area policemen, after a short trip to Washington D.C. and the University of South Carolina...
...YEARS AGO on April 10 at dawn, 400 state and local policemen marched up the steps of University Hall, clubs raised, and began the brutal eviction of hundreds of student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike...