Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a proposal ("Government-sponsored moral collapse"), the weekly California Southern Baptist countered, tongue in cheek, with an even farther-out suggestion. "Perhaps," the magazine editorialized, "we ought to send into battle zones only married men whose wives can accompany them to a relatively safe zone near the battle area, and the men could spend a week on the front line and a week at home...
...Vuitch estimates that more than 20,000 abortions a year are performed in the Washington area, and that only about 25% of them are done in hospitals. Many of the illegal abortions are performed on poor women by unlicensed practitioners under less than sanitary conditions. While the capital's private hospitals interpreted the old statute relatively freely to permit therapeutic abortions, the public institution-D.C. General Hospital-which mainly serves the poor, did very few such operations...
...only took three steps on those shoes -into the dinette area, which has a vinyl floor. The heels were plastic and the soles were vinyl. I never waxed the floor, so it wasn't slippery; I was very careful about that. My heel slipped on the vinyl and down I went. They had to remove my kneecap. It was a three-hour operation...
...group on 13th and E. Our group-things were getting so friendly that it was difficult to maintain the proper degree of polarization-was reserved for "general ground control activities." A few squads were sent off to a nearby red light district, two busloads were earmarked for the embassy area, the rest were to wait to mop up the bands of demonstrators that would be straggling back from the Justice Department later on. There was no doubt in their minds that there would be trouble. It was all part of their really smooth operation...
...board, dotted with all colors and sizes of peace buttons. A few kids stood around him trying to decide which buttons they wanted to buy. I swear, but even after the gas really started, that guy still stood there. He must have been the last person to leave the area...