Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute refueling stop at Pago Pago (pronounced pongo pongo or pahgo pahgo) on the American Samoan isle of Tutuila next day, nearly one-fourth of its 22,000 people turned out, carrying umbrellas and banyan branches against the blazing sun. Along the tapa-cloth welcome mat, 50 bare-chested chiefs and their wives took part in the Pago à Go-Go, draping the President with ulas-Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells filled with a bitter concoction made from pulverized roots and known as kava. Lyndon barely touched...
...last visit to one of the totally bare cells, claimed Jordan, he was kept naked for almost eleven days, deprived of heat, light, bedding, ventilation, medical treatment and the most basic sanitary facilities. He appealed to San Francisco's U.S. District Judge George B. Harris, who thereupon indignantly issued his circuit's first federal injunction against state prison officials. Impressed with Jordan's "clear and convincing" testimony, which vividly described cells caked with human excrement, Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." He ordered California...
...statement that seduction is never "acceptable as a subject matter for comedy." Instead of "profanity is forbidden," the code specifies that "undue profanity should not be permitted." Where once the code banned nudity altogether, it now forbids "indecent or undue exposure." When a reporter asked Valenti if "bare breasts could be deemed indecent in one film and decent in another," Valenti emphatically replied...
...ragged field of five other candidates had 62,000 among them. If Mahoney wins, it would have to be called a startling upset, but it would by no means be the "backlash victory" that much of the daily press instantly called it. The fact was, Mahoney attracted a bare 31% of all votes cast; his two major opponents, both of whom came out strongly in favor of antidiscriminatory housing laws, pulled nearly twice that much...
...experience. All students who had taken the drug experienced a mystical consciousness that resembled those described by saints and ascetics. A subject who had participated in another experiment said he saw "white light of absolute purity. I had the feeling of going deep within myself, to the self stripped bare of all pretense and falseness...