Word: stand-off
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...stand-off between HUCTW and the University intensified this winter when Union workers began picketing daily outside of Mass. Hall...
...they attempt to explain their actions. Gritz said he had not seen the tape, and called the negotiations "verbal judo all day." Gritz insisted Sunday that white separatist Randy Weaver accompany him on his second trip, but authorities in Washington refuse to let Weaver play a role in the stand-off. After his Saturday meetings with the Freemen, Gritz told reporters the anti-government group, which he reported numbers 22 people, may be running low on food, and might surrender soon. He also reported that the group is armed with pistols and numerous rifles. Gritz has publicly called...
...local news goes, there has only been one story since last Thursday, when a number of students from South Boston High School incited a race riot. Within minutes of the first stand-off, as white students stood outside and Black students crowded on the front steps of the school, students were hurling asphalt at the police, the mayor was sent to the hospital and the mob of reporters sent to the scene nearly outnumbered everyone else...
Wrong. Let's try again. This film involves a bunch of hostages whose humorous idiosyncracies emerge while they're being held at gunpoint in a stand-off with police...
Indeed, Quick Change is most successful with the slices of Manhattan life it depicts during the bank-robbery scenes: a hostage dictating his will into his microcassette recorder, a street vendor selling hot dogs to the crowd that has assembled to watch the stand...